Re: Partition question

[Darik Horn <dajhorn@vanadac.com>]

> /dev/sda1 as /boot
> /dev/sda2 as /
> /dev/sda3 as swap.

In this case, you probably want /dev/sda2 to appear before /dev/sda1 in 
the fstab file because filesystems are mounted in order by line number.

If "/foo" is mounted after "/foo/bar", then "/foo/bar" will not be 
accessible until "/foo" is unmounted.  (ie: Mounts are not a union set.)


Victory wrote:

> During Debian (woody 3.0r1) installation, how do I tell that I want to set:
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> /dev/sda1 as /boot
> /dev/sda2 as /
> /dev/sda3 as swap.
>  
> I did set up those partition as above, but after finish and boot up, df 
> -v only show /dev/sda2 mount as /
> and I can see all the directories under / including /boot containing all 
> the boot files.
> I then have to manually mount  /dev/sda1 as /mnt and copy all the files 
> from /boot directory to /mnt
> and then edit /etc/fstab file so that it will mount /dev/sda1 as /boot 
> everytime system rebooted.
> Is this normal or did I do something wrong.
>
> Regards,
> Victor
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