Re: fstab?

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:09:11 -0400, christine wrote:
christine wrote:
hmmm...

man fstab is NOT very easy to undestand.

Dictionaries are hard to understand. Seems you have to keep looking up
more and more words to understand the first word. :-)

the fifth field tells us to dump or not to dump.
now, i have no idea what that "dump" means...

Go back an look at that paragraph. The hint was
The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems by the
dump(8) command

now you have to do a
man 8 dump

thanks for answering my question!

Since you seem to be looking around trying to understand what is what,
this might help.

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

If you have not done it yet, do a
man man
.

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