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Updated trunk book sources to use DocBook?-XML DTD 4.5.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-bootable-fstab">
9  <?dbhtml filename="fstab.html"?>
10
11  <title>Creating the /etc/fstab File</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-fstab">
14    <primary sortas="e-/etc/fstab">/etc/fstab</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <para os="a">The <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file is used by some
18  programs to determine where file systems are to be mounted by default,
19  in which order, and which must be checked (for integrity errors) prior
20  to mounting. Create a new file systems table like this:</para>
21
22<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/fstab &lt;&lt; "EOF"
23<literal># Begin /etc/fstab
24
25# file system  mount-point  type   options          dump  fsck
26#                                                         order
27
28/dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>     /            <replaceable>[fff]</replaceable>  defaults         1     1
29/dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable>     swap         swap   pri=1            0     0
30proc           /proc        proc   defaults         0     0
31sysfs          /sys         sysfs  defaults         0     0
32devpts         /dev/pts     devpts gid=4,mode=620   0     0
33shm            /dev/shm     tmpfs  defaults         0     0
34# End /etc/fstab</literal>
35EOF</userinput></screen>
36
37  <para os="b">Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>,
38  <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable>, and <replaceable>[fff]</replaceable>
39  with the values appropriate for the system, for example, <filename
40  class="partition">hda2</filename>, <filename
41  class="partition">hda5</filename>, and <systemitem
42  class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem>. For details on the six
43  fields in this file, see <command>man 5 fstab</command>.</para>
44
45  <para os="c">The <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> mount point
46  for <systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem> is included to
47  allow enabling POSIX-shared memory. The kernel must have the required
48  support built into it for this to work (more about this is in the next
49  section). Please note that very little software currently uses
50  POSIX-shared memory.  Therefore, consider the <filename
51  class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> mount point optional. For more
52  information, see <filename>Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt</filename>
53  in the kernel source tree.</para>
54
55</sect1>
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