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Old 16th May 2008
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when the OS boots it (kernel) knows where the root filesystem is. it reads /etc/fstab to mount the filesystems. obviously, the file /etc/fstab needs to be on the root filesystem or to put it in another way /etc can't be on a seperate filesystem.
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