etc/fstab: what should be in it?

**digiSal** · 12-16-2003, 02:03 AM

I strongly believe that my problems in this thread
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6722

are due to the fact that my fstab is empty.

what should go in there

if my root is hda1 and my swap is hda2, and one fat32 partitiion on hda3? i have one dvd-drive, and one floppy drive

something like?

/dev/hda1 /root ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec, 0 0
/dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom defaults 0 0

i dont know, what do you think?

**rickenbacherus** · 12-16-2003, 02:42 AM

Dude- you have pioneered some new ground here. I have never heard of an empty fstab before. /etc/fstab and lilo.conf are quite unrelated. I would strongly suggest reinstalling. My fstab looks like so:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type      options                               dump  pass
proc       /proc          proc      defaults                                 0  0
usbdevfs   /proc/bus/usb  usbdevfs  defaults                                 0  0
/dev/fd0   /floppy        vfat      defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom         iso9660   defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto           0  0
/dev/hda1  none           swap      sw                                       0  0
#/dev/hda2  /?             ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda3  /              ext3      defaults,errors=remount-ro               0  1
#dev/hda4 is the extended partition
#/dev/hda5 /?              ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda6  /home          ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda7  /tmp           ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda8  /var           ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
#/dev/hda9  /?             ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda10 /media         ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
#/dev/hda11 /?             auto      noauto,users,exec                        0  0
#/dev/hda12 /?             ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda13 /remaster      ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0
/dev/hda14 /usr           ext3      auto,users,exec                          0  0

You won't have as many listings but I think you get the idea. Knoppix installs everything to one partition /root. Your other drives will also have entries. If you need any help at all reinstalling just post or better yet- get on irc and
/j #knoppix

**digiSal** · 12-16-2003, 03:13 AM

Pioneering huh? thats cool, least i am learning a thing or two...

thanks for posting your fstab!

i am wondering if i should just use the fstab that the knoppix cd creates in RAM,

which looks like soL

Code:

proc       /proc       proc   defaults            0 0
pts        /dev/pts    devpts mode=0622           0 0
/dev/fd0   /mnt/auto/floppy auto   user,noauto,exec,umask=000    0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom  auto   user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0

although, i think i should change hda1 to home or root?

i'll give it a whirl later, doing laundry now...haha...

**digiSal** · 12-19-2003, 04:41 PM

just an update:

I used knoppix-installer to do this install and well, my posts talk about the problems.

So for the hell of it, i tried knx-hdinstall, and it worked like a charm.

It is up and running now.

thanks for the help!

--Sal-