[nflug] fstab tips / progress on community education, posted .pdf brochure draft

[Stephen Burke]

Daniel V wrote:
> re: GNU/Linux community education
> I've posted a rough draft of a proposed public
> relations brochure in .pdf format at
> http://geocities.com/linuxinbuffalo
> I haven't printed this out yet, but when I get the
> formatting correct, I'll post that version to the
> site.
> 
> 
> re:fstab
> You may want to set your fstab settings for maximum
> performance and to suit your needs. Depending on what
> distribution you're using, you may have different
> issues with this.
> 
> mount
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html
> 
> fstab-sync
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fstab-sync.8.html
> 
> HAL
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal
> 
> LVM
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
> http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_lvm.htm
> 
> for mounting Linux partitions, I like to use the
> noatime switch, as I really don't want to waste time
> settings flags on a partition with lots of files.
> 
> Upon researching this, I see that a lot of people are
> having issues customizing their fstab files.
> 
> from
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fstab-sync.8.html...
> "Automatic updates of the /etc/fstab file by the
> fstab-sync program from the HAL daemon can be disabled
> by making the /etc/fstab file immutable (using chattr
> +i /etc/fstab for example"
> 
> some of my entries...
> /dev/hda2               /media/hda2               vfat
>    user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0007,uid=root,gid=user
> /dev/sda2               /media/sda2               ext3
>    noauto,noatime
> 
> For NTFS, I like to use the utf8 switch.
> 
> for other examples, 
> http://medlem.jubii.dk/abager/blog/dotfiles/fstab
> 
> regards,
> Daniel Villarreal
> 
> 
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Thanks.
Perhaps Ishould have read this reply first, but the subject line threw 
me. It appears I have a bit of research to do myself.
Thanks for the links.
S.
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