[PlanetCCRMA] /etc/fstab options and wierdness

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 19:11 -0500, Benjamin Hardy wrote:
> I know, I should search more thoroughly on this, I'm sure there is
> something on setting HD settings in the fstab file, but I can't remember
> where.
> 
> Anyways, I want to use the noatime option on my partitions as I've heard
> it helps with performance.
> 
> here's my fstab file: (i adjusted the spacing for easy viewing)
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> LABEL=/      /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot  /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> /dev/devpts  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> /dev/shm     /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/home  /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> /dev/proc    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> /dev/sys     /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda3    swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdb    /media/cdrecorder    auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> 
> so I should change / , /boot,  and /home right?
> can I just add noatime after the defaults option or do I have to remove
> that? I think that the defaults option contains the rw, suid, dev, exec,
> auto,  nouser, and async options so would i have to do this for
> example?:
> LABEL=/home /home ext3  rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime   1 2

I think it would be enough to add "noatime" to the defaults, like:
LABEL=/home /home ext3  defaults,noatime   1 2

> Secondly, after installing FC4 (I didn't upgrade) with the cds I got
> some boot errors that some mountpoints couldn't be mounted, it also gave
> an error about LVM even though I didn't set up any LVM partitions.

Did you do an automatic partition? If so, then I think fc4 sets up lvm
on the whole disk and then does virtual volumes on top of that. I have
actually never tried that myself, I just do a manual partition. 

> Here's the fstab from that. Did anyone else have this problem. My
> computer locked up, and I hope it was just because of this and not
> something else.
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
> /dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults
> 0 0
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults
> 0 0
> LABEL=1
> QString::arg(   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

This line sounds weird, do you actually have that QString thing there?

> /dev/hdb                /media/cdrecorder       auto
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

-- Fernando