[Voyage-linux] where is root fs specified for mounting?

Jeff Ramin (spam-protected)
Fri Apr 17 03:29:51 HKT 2009


Gustin Johnson wrote:
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> Jeff Ramin wrote:
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>> Apparently voyage (or maybe it's debian) has a method for specifying
>> the root device and how to mount it that I'm not familiar with. I'm
>> used to seeing it in /etc/fstab, but on my 0.5.2 voyage machine, the
>> line with /dev/hda1 is commented out.
>>
>> So, could somebody explain how this is determined? I'm using lilo, if
>> that matters.
>>
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> The root file system is mounted based on the disk label.  Usually in
> voyage it is:
> /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS
>   

Thanks.

How are the mount options specified?

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Jeff Ramin
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