Re: with etch, /etc/fstab root not needed?

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de>]

Larry Evans wrote:
> I commented out the lines specifying where my root filesystem
> was located in fstab:
> 
>   # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>   proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>   #/dev/hdb3       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
>       1
>   /dev/hdb9       none            swap    sw              0       0
>   #/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>   #/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>   /dev/hdd8       /mnt/hdd8       ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
>       1
> 
[...]

The /proc entry is obsolete if you use default mount options. It is
mounted by one of the initscripts.
-- 
Regards,
Jörg-Volker.