[ale] fstab question

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 18:01, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 14:24, Sean <kilpatms at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>> Why not use /sda2, /sda3, and /sda4?
>>
>> Because some (probably lonely under-sexed pale-skinned
>> mothers-basement-living) individual thought that all Debian/Ubnutu
>> desktop systems should have all the same software configurations as
>> powerful backend servers.  For presumably the same reasons you get
>> Bluetooth, NetworkManager (with PPP, GSM, etc), Avahi, etc on your
>> Debian/Ubuntu Server installs.
>
> You sure you aren't thinking of Red Hat?

No, I was sure about Ubuntu < 9.10.

> Johnny stuck up for Debian, and now I'm going to stick up for Ubuntu. I
> just downloaded and installed ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.iso
>
> After installation, it's using 733MB of disk space and 18MB of RAM (+/-
> buffers/cache).
>
> It's running in runlevel 2. The contents of /etc/rc2.d are README,
> S50rsync, S70dns-clean, S70pppd-dns, S99grub-common, S99ondemand, and
> S99rc.local

If that is the case, then Ubuntu has recently changed (kudus!)

-Jim P.