Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]

From	Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]
Date	2024-08-19 18:00 +0200
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:44:39 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote:

> THANK YOU
> 
> On 08/19/2024 07:02 AM, David wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 11:19, Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>
> > wrote: 
> >> At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets
> >> mounted as a specific directory ( /, /home, swap, and so forth )?
> >>
> >> Please reference documentation as reading it will remind me of how
> >> and why I chose specific options.  
> > 
> > man 5 fstab  
> 
> "fstab" was one of the keywords I'd forgotten.
> 
> > 
> > https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.config-misc.html#sect.fstab-mount-points  
> 
> Browsing that link suggests it will prompt me to ask needed questions.
> It's not the document I was visualizing. I was expecting something
> that I would have been reading when new to Linux.

Then what you want is not documentation but tutorials. You want
documentation when you know something you need to do but not the exact
details of how. Many man pages are rather short on examples, which
tutorials will provide.

Try Google with:
linux directory mounting on boot tutorial

This will turn up a lot of similar but not identical sites, varying
from a bald list of instructions to do a particular thing, to an
explanation of fundamentals. Some won't mean much to you, ignore them
and move on.

The first step is probably to look at /etc/fstab on a working system
and see what you can understand of it, and what you don't understand.
That's certainly where partitions are named, along with filesystem
directories and the mapping between them. The documentation is where
you find what the mounting parameters mean and do. Apart from fstab
itself, you'll need the man pages for the mount commands for whatever
filesystem types are named in fstab e.g. mount.cifs, as many parameters
are specific to the filesystem type.

-- 
Joe

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Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-19 13:20 +0200
  Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2024-08-19 14:10 +0200
    Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-19 15:50 +0200
      Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-08-19 18:00 +0200
        Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-19 20:20 +0200
  Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-08-19 22:00 +0200
    Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-20 10:50 +0200
      Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-08-20 11:40 +0200
        Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-20 12:50 +0200
          Trixie and i386 - was [Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation  Guide" lacks index ]] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-20 14:40 +0200
            Re: Trixie and i386 - was [Re: Default partition mounts [  "Installation Guide" lacks index ]] Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-08-20 15:50 +0200
            Future of i386 as installer "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-08-20 15:50 +0200
      The lack of a future for 32-bit x86 installs (Was Re: Default  partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-08-20 17:20 +0200
        Re: The lack of a future for 32-bit x86 installs (Was Re: Default  partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-08-20 18:10 +0200
  Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2024-08-20 00:50 +0200
    Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-08-20 05:20 +0200
      Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-20 10:10 +0200
  Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-08-20 06:30 +0200
    Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-08-20 10:20 +0200
    UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation  Guide" lacks index ]) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 17:20 +0200
      Re: UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [  "Installation Guide" lacks index ]) Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-08-20 17:30 +0200
      Re: UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [  "Installation Guide" lacks index ]) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-08-20 18:00 +0200
        Re: UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation  Guide" lacks index ]) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-08-20 18:30 +0200
          Re: UEFI multiboot gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-20 22:20 +0200
        Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 06:00 +0200
          Re: UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-21 06:30 +0200
            Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 18:20 +0200
              Re: UEFI multiboot Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-08-21 19:40 +0200
              Re: UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-22 00:30 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 05:20 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-22 11:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 18:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-22 22:50 +0200
                [SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 05:10 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-08-23 06:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-30 18:10 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-30 18:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-31 04:20 +0200
                [SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-09-14 06:10 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-09-14 06:40 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2024-09-14 19:40 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-09-14 21:20 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-09-14 21:40 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-09-16 12:20 +0200
                Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2024-09-17 01:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI multiboot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-08-22 12:00 +0200
          Re: UEFI multiboot Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-08-21 08:50 +0200
            Re: UEFI multiboot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-08-21 09:20 +0200

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