[H-GEN] RE: the order hdd's are mounted

[Jason Henry Parker]

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:24:59AM +1000, Michael wrote:
> I have been following the emails about how to partition your hard drive
> correctly.. and i have decided to make a seperate partition for /usr /tmp
> /var /home and /.
 
> But for some reason they get mounted the wrong way up  like:

Is that a huge problem?  afaict, all the disks are being mounted onto
the right partitions, so...?  What effect are you trying to get by having
disks mounted in a specific order?
 
> The fstab contents are:
> 
> /dev/hdb8       /        ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hdb9       /tmp        ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hdb10       /usr        ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hdb11       /var        ext2        defaults   1   1
> /dev/hdb12       /home        ext2        defaults   1   1

> How can i get the hard drives to be mounted in the order i want ie
> hdb9,10,11,12?  Also being a newbie how can i get /usr mounted read only?

/dev/hdb10       /usr        ext2        defaults,ro   1   1

The "ro" option tells mount to mount a partition read-only (duh).  I
also like to put in something like

/dev/optcd     /cdrom     iso9660     ro,noexec,user

so that users can do a "mount /cdrom".  (Most useful when they're at
the console, so that they can actually put the cdrom in, too.  :)

man fstab
man mount

It can be a little tough going for a new user, but it's pretty simple
once you've got the hang of it.  :)

---Jason Parker---ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au---
|``This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with|
|  which I will not put.''        -- Churchill|
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