Thursday, August 26, 2010

Dump and Pass....? (fstab)

What do I need to do with dump and pass...?


Bodhi zazen:-

Dump is a somewhat outdated method of backup.
pass = check at boot

pass number

Used by the fsck command to determine the order in which file system checks are done. The root file system should be specified with a pass number of 1, to be checked first, and other file systems should have larger numbers. (A file system with a pass number of zero is ignored by the fsck command.)

File systems within a drive should be assigned different pass numbers, but file systems on different drives can be checked on the same pass, to utilize possible parallelism available in the hardware. If pass number is not present, fsck checks each such file system sequentially after all eligible file systems with pass numbers have been checked


In general you do not need to modify these numbers.

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