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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: how to mount a permanent partition to root??
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:06:26 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- cl820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wei Jin Mai) writes:
-
-
- > I read all the guides and SFAQ last night . None of them tell how to
- >mount another Linux partition permanently. There are 2 Linux partitions in
- >my harddisk. hda3 houses the root. hda4 sis 60 megabytes and is free.
- >Now I want to install X-windows and set up a swap file which nneed more
- >disk space than hda3 has. How do I mount hda4 PERMANENTLY to the root
- >directory in hda3?
- >--
- >Weijin Mai
-
- What do you mean by PERMANENTLY?? You can put a fs on hda4 by issuing the
- mkfs command on it. After that mounting at boot would consist of adding
- the following line to fstab:
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- /dev/hda4 /mnt minix defaults
-
- You would have to change minix to ext, if you made an extfs on hda4, but
- otherwise it would look the same. Also, you would have to change /mnt to the
- actual directory you wanted to mount onto.
-
- What most people do is have another partition for /usr/ and mount it on there.
-
- James
-