Chapter 1. Operational details 7
We used the new disk space to confirm that it worked, and then edited /etc/fstab to cause the
new file systems to be automatically mounted at boot time. (There are no unwanted effects if
the second hard disk is not present when Linux is booted; the file systems on that disk are
simply not mounted.) We added a line at the end of fstab:
# vi /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
LABEL=/s390 /s390 ext2 defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /s391 ext2 defaults 0 0
Your disk sizes and partition numbers will probably differ from this example, but the general ...