Mounting Question

[Dark Star]

Hi
Recently I switched al my partitions to XFS Now I was using openSUSE 11 at that time.. I used the inbuilt partitioner to mount.. It was quick.. There was an option mount by Device Name.. which provide name to HDD like My Comp, Docs etc.. Is it possible to do that just by editing the mount point in fstab ? WIll it change the name too ?

Or any other method ! Like my current mount point is /media/disk Will replaceing disk by Files will change the name too ? Apart from that why Fedora doesn't have support for Commands like fdisk -l , lshw[I know it is not installed] , lspci , and much more?
How do I enable restricted format support in Fedora 9..



Regards

 

[Faun]

Fedora has fdisk -l command, its just that by default it doesn't include the "bin" directory where these binaries are

Use
su -
to change to root.
the "-" is necessary to include the bin dir where these binaries are

 

[Rahim]

You have to use :"LABEL=/" in fstab in place of /dev/sdx or UUUID=

 

[MetalheadGautham]

why XFS ? You could have gone for JFS or EXT3 for best performance...

 

[kalpik]

EXT3 for performance? Lol dont make jokes early in the morning

 

[ray|raven]

^Aww cmon kalpik , he started your day with a laugh

 

[Dark Star]

XFS is the fastest Filesystem atleast what I noticed. Copying files was never so zippy Just one question. None of the OS mount it automatically .. I have open Nautilus under roor and change things under Properties..

btw how can change this. the Fedora fstab looks mess.. Where is my XFS partitions :s .. I have one XFS partitions and one ext3 partitions ! ..

UUID=34a47b9a-7396-4a0d-ace7-7de8ffc19402 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
UUID=b5731dab-3277-4fc3-bfd9-bdc81e9e8d88 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

 

[Faun]

^^those all are not your data partitions except for the / one...lolz
tmpfs,devpts,sysfs and proc are temporary partition, created on each reboot and destroyed on each shutdown.
last one is swap mounted using UUID, first one is / mounted using UUID

Guess you have to create manual entries.

 

[ray|raven]

XFS is the fastest Filesystem atleast what I noticed. Copying files was never so zippy Just one question. None of the OS mount it automatically ..

Yeah , Xfs is friggin fast.

And Zenwalk mounts it automatically , I got two Xfs partitions and they get mounted fine.

Only dumb thing with Xfs is that GRUB doesnt boot off it.
But then again we always got LILO.

 

[Dark Star]

A lame question :S DOes SUSE 11 comes with LILO ? If not .. then it booted with XFS as my filesystem ?

 

[ray|raven]

^iirc , opensuse lets you choose between lilo and grub.

and afaik , grub cant boot off Xfs.

 

[Dark Star]

But I didn't selected LILO and it Installed grub by default

 

[praka123]

what do you actually want? I think you can mount by "mount -t xfs /dev/sdx /mnt " from another distro.
regarding mounting your other distro/window$ partitions ,you can make directories like My_Documents, My_Computer etc and mount with fstab!.

*fedorafaq.org regarding restricted blah ! .

 

[kalpik]

Make a separate /boot partition with ext2 on it (100 mb would do).. And i seriously hope you dont loose power while the system is on.. XFS screws up pretty bad! That way, JFS is a VERY good balance betweek speed and stability

 

[Faun]

^^wats the harm is sticking to ext3 ?
Every filesystem has its disadvantages !

 

[nitish_mythology]

What advantages do Xfs has over ext3 and vice-versa?

 

[hellknight]

creating a shell script for that purpose would help i think so.. I've created a script that mounts my ntfs-3g and HFS+ partitions under OpenSUSE 11 without any probs..

1. Make a folder in your home folder with respective names of the partitions.
2. Then,

#!/bin/bash
mount /dev/sda2 /home/dark/name
mount /dev/sda2 /home/dark/name2

etc etc.. like this

then you can change the permissions by chmod u+x script.sh

now open terminal and execute the shell script as root user..

If you wanna add write support then i assume you should try chmod 777 /dev/sdaX

regarding power failures... you can try fsck command to fix your disk

 

[kalpik]

What advantages do Xfs has over ext3 and vice-versa?

XFS: Faster but not too stable
EXT3: Very stable but not too fast
JFS: Best of both worlds

 

[hellknight]

Is JFS supported by OpenSUSE 11.. and if yes tell me how can i convert my filesystem into OpenSUSE 11.. currently ext3

 

[Dark Star]

^^Open yast - > Partitioner -> Select The partition modify and change..