[plug] Partition sizes on a new install

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, SweenyTod wrote:

> /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> 
> first is the device, second would be mount point?, third file system type, 
> then read/write attributes, then I have no clue.

"man fstab" has the details.
 
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0622 0 0
> 
> This one has got me.  A device of none?

Bingo. No device, mounted on /dev/pts, type devpts. Pseudo-terminals.
This must have been named before the term "virtual-" became fashionable.
 
> We have the source!  But that's not much use if you don't understand it, in 
> which camp the overwhelming majority of users probably are.

That doesnt matter. You can still re-compile old source and be free of the
chains of binary compatibility. Or someone else can do it for you even.
 
> Long live helpful mailing lists I say.

I hope they live longer than helpful-usenet did, may it RIP.

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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