OT Wife almost weened into linux

[Ted Ozolins]

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> List
> 
>   a major thing has happened. My wife is now moving to linux, she does not care
> just so long as she can get her email, browse the web and play solitare, maybe a
> couple other games. Winders got so slow and messed up that photos were too slow
> in coming up, of course I told her that was normal for M$. She said it was
> faster at work than at home. Heck, I just could not fix it for her, grand kids
> were allowed to mess around on her machine,  2 - 6 year olds, not telling the
> stress and strain on MSludge got. It just didnot hold up, <g>.
> 
>    I have a second question here. I have a /opt directory where no program will
> run without a permission denied. if I umount and remount, all works fine.
> 
> the below is my /etc/fstab, is there something that stands out here to anyone.
> 
> /dev/hda1               /boot           ext3            defaults      1 1
> /dev/hda3               /               reiserfs        defaults      0 1
> /dev/hda2               none            swap            sw            0 1
> /dev/hda5               /home           reiserfs        user          0 1
> /dev/hda6               /swdev          reiserfs        user          0 1
> /dev/hda7               /opt            reiserfs        user          0 1
> /dev/hda8               /archive        reiserfs        user          0 1
> /dev/hda9               /test           reiserfs        user          0 1
> /dev/hda10              /public         reiserfs        user          0 1
> 
> 
> # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
> none                    /proc           proc            defaults         0 0
> 
> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). 
> # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
> #  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
> # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
> 
> none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults        0 0
> 
> cheers
> 
Should the entries not have "defaults" ie:
/dev/hda7              /opt            reiserfs        user,defaults 0 1
just a thought.
-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.