Newbie Qns: How do I... 7057

Aragorn

Well, if i save it as text files with a meaningful filename, it's easier to find the relevant information. And i tend to lose physically printed stuff... :-p

Yeah, there's still plenty that i need to read up and find out about. In particular, the next thing to do to be to find out what's the difference between the various FS's (ext2, ext3FS, reiserFS, tmpFS, etc...)

Yup, just realised that as well... as such, i re-did everything again ;-)

No worries... i should have read and thought more carefully and done more research on my own as well... in any case, i'm happy to try and try again till i get it right... part of the learning process... as long as i don't physically break anything... (well, i'm sure there won't be a commandblowupgraphicscard-... right... right?)

yes, something like that... now i have

dev-hda1 = NTFS (for the XP OS)dev-hda2 = extended parbreastion containerdev-hda5 = logical NTFS (for XP stuffs not used by Linux)dev-hda6 = logical ext3 for "-"dev-hda7 = for "-boot" (actually did this before i know that "-boot" should be before "-")dev-hda8 ...dev-hdaX all the other relevant parbreastions...

dev-sda1 = VFAT (for the win-linux shared resources, docs, etc)

Just curious... why is it that we should have the entries for floppy drives and CD drives, etc, on the fstab? i mean... the fstab stores information on the "drives" (or parbreastions) to be mounted when the system starts... but shouldn't the floppy and CD drives be mounted only when you, erm, put in a floppy or CD?

Yes, hopefully i've got it right this time.

Thanks again!

Regards, Edwin