Author Topic: Partitions and fstab  (Read 849 times)

Offline Howard

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Partitions and fstab
« on: March 11, 2010, 02:11:41 PM »
I'm in the process of configuring a Dell Mini 10v.  I have a small partition for the XP that I'll almost never use (20GB - something went wrong there as I was expecting 30!).  Three around 10 GB for OSs and three around 30 GB for data, one of these is formatted as NTFS-G3 so as to be accessible to XP as well as Linux.  In the past I've written the fstab file by hand with much trial and error, as that was the only way I knew, but hadn't a clue as to what to put in for the NTFS partition. 

Now I discover I can do it all in PCC.  If I specify the mount points for each partition and allow it to save to fstab on closing, the mount points are created and the correct entries added to fstab.  I wish I'd known that before!  Perhaps everyone else knows this already?
How does one become a hero?  By asking a lot of dumb questions apparently! I have three computers of various ages, the most powerful is a Dell Netbook 10v; each has 2 or 3 versions of PCLOS of various vintages.  Location, St John's, Newfoundland.

Offline Xero

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Re: Partitions and fstab
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2010, 11:09:17 PM »
Ouch! LOL , yeah, it's always good to have a good look thru what the PCLOS Control Center allows you to do, saves a lot of time, and manual fiddling. :)
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