The UNIX and Linux Forums  


Go Back   The UNIX and Linux Forums > Top Forums > Shell Programming and Scripting
.
google unix.com




View Single Post in the UNIX and Linux Forums - Click on the Thread or Permalink to View Entire Thread -->
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 04-27-2008
Tornado's Avatar
Tornado Tornado is offline Forum Advisor  
Registered User
  
 

Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 249
Quote:
Originally Posted by wrapster
My primary focus here is to mount swap on /tmp before its done by iteslf...
One question comes to mind ... Why would you want to?

And to answer your other question:
Quote:
Originally Posted by wrapster
Secondly, continuing with the same issue...
I wanted to know if the entries in the vfstab are initially hand coded ?
I mean during the development of the OS , will /etc/vfstab be created by hand and the details added?or is the creation of vfstab is through some other scripts?
When the OS is initially installed a vfstab file is created, then if you want to add more file systems from other disks you edit the vfstab by hand.

Last edited by Tornado; 04-27-2008 at 07:36 AM..