Subj : Adding new swap to fstab
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Fri Sep 27 2019 21:20:46

on 27 Sep 2019, Dumas Walker said...
 
 DW> I have an sbc that, as of right now, only mounts one partition.  I would
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....which is running what? Some frankensteinian mutation of debian?

 DW> # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM

OK, so this is generally what debootstrap generates -- an empty fstab. Either
it has an fstab somewhere in initrd, or it's got one in /lib/init/fstab that
contains the partitions that absolutely must be mounted, while /etc/fstab can
be used to override those entries.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

 DW> OK, so somehow this debian system knows to mount an SD card partition as
 DW> '/' without being told to do so in the fstab.  So, if I add a new entry

It's initrd. I'm calling it.

 DW> for a swap partition/file, will it still know how to mount the root
 DW> partition, or am I fixing to break something?!?  

You'll be fine. Just add the swap entry to /etc/fstab. It's not conflicting
with anything in any other fstab, right? You don't *currently* have a swap
partition on, right? So it's fine.

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