Hi all,

I am doing the following to mount

mount -o remount rw /
mount -o remount rw /abc

and each time i reboot i have to do this. Cant i put this in /etc/fstab.
If so how can i put . I dont understand this files. It says something like as

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0

what is /dev/hda1 ext3 default etc...

Can any one help me in understanding it.

Thanks & Regards
Gauri

In /etc/fstab there is one line for each partition/device that you are mounting e.g

/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2

The first column is the device/partition that you wish to mount.
The second column is the mount point, the location in your filesystem where you wish to mount this partition.
The third column is the type of filesystem of type of information that is stored on that partition.
The fourth column is the options you wish to use when mounting this partition, most of the time defaults is acceptable.
The fifth column is whether this filesystem is going to use certain back utilities to backup data on this partition.
The sixth column specifies whether you are going to run the fsck (filesystem check) program over the filesystem on that partition and in which order to check the filesystems, your / partition will be set to 1 and others probably set to 2.

Hope this helps.

See if this page helps out, Remember to use google it is your freind. There is a better guide out there but I can't remember where it is at, but this should get you started.

http://members.toast.net/art.ross/Li...rt1/fstab.html

thanks for such a valuabel information , but i am bit busy to have a look at it deeply so i will get back to you once i will try it again till then i am doing it mannuly as soon as system comes up

Regards
Gauri