Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 165

data. This file contains all partitions in the system with their properties, such as the file
system, mount point, and user permissions.
Example 7.1 /etc/fstab: Partition Data
/dev/sda1 /data1
/dev/sda5 /data2
/dev/sda6 /data3
The partitions, regardless of whether they are Linux or FAT partitions, are specified
with the options noauto and user. This allows any user to mount or unmount these
partitions as needed. For security reasons, YaST does not automatically enter the exec
option here, which is needed for executing programs from the location. However, to
run programs from there, you can enter this option manually. This measure is necessary
if you encounter system messages such as bad interpreter or Permission denied.
Partitioning and LVM
From the expert partitioner, access the LVM configuration with LVM (see
"LVM Configuration"
exists on your system, it is automatically activated as soon as you enter the LVM con-
figuration for the first time in a session. In this case, any disks containing a partition
belonging to an activated volume group cannot be repartitioned because the Linux
kernel cannot reread the modified partition table of a hard disk when any partition on
this disk is in use. However, if you already have a functioning LVM configuration on
your system, physical repartitioning should not be necessary. Instead, change the con-
figuration of the logical volumes.
At the beginning of the physical volumes (PVs), information about the volume is written
to the partition. To reuse such a partition for other non-LVM purposes, it is advisable
to delete the beginning of this volume. For example, in the VG system and PV /dev/
sda2, do this with the command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 bs=512
count=1.
WARNING: File System for Booting
The file system used for booting (the root file system or /boot) must not be
stored on an LVM logical volume. Instead, store it on a normal physical partition.
auto noauto,user 0 0
auto noauto,user 0 0
auto noauto,user 0 0
(page 123)). However, if a working LVM configuration already
Section 6.1,
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