How to mount a file in /etc/fstab?

zaiwen

I am making 一个文件 to 直接限定一个user home目录的大小, as advised by Kevin in one posting.  It works fine, but my question is how to make this change permanent?

Steps:

1. . dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/texthd1 bs=1024 count=102400
这样你就有了100M的文件.

2.mkfs.ext3 /tmp/texthd1
这样你就有了一个100M的ext3的分区

3.mount -o loop /tmp/texthd1 /home/user1
这样你就有了一个大小为100M的用户空间(实际因为有日志系统和Superblock的原故
会小一点)

Great! But after reboot, the setting is gone and you need to run the mount command again....

I  tried to edit /etc/fstab as:
/tmp/texthd1   /home/user1   ext3   defaults  1 2

but failed....my machine even crashed and can't boot up......

Any clue....thanks a lot.....

kissingwolf

defaults --> loop

zaiwen

Thanks....After I change defaults to loop, my machine can boot up correctly, but it is not mounted yet

????

yongjian

Post by zaiwen
Thanks....After I change defaults to loop, my machine can boot up correctly, but it is not mounted yet

????

put a "auto" in the option section.

zaiwen

Bingo...I changed to "auto" and it works fine....

Thanks!!!