source: BOOK/bootable/common/fstab.xml@ c84d855

clfs-3.0.0-systemd clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit systemd sysvinit
Last change on this file since c84d855 was 8faf5fa, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 11 years ago

Virtual filesystems don't need to be in /etc/fstab anymore

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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
30
31# End /etc/fstab</literal>
32EOF</userinput></screen>
33
34 <para os="b">Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>,
35 <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable>, and <replaceable>[fff]</replaceable>
36 with the values appropriate for the system, for example, <filename
37 class="partition">hda2</filename>, <filename
38 class="partition">hda5</filename>, and <systemitem
39 class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem>. For details on the six
40 fields in this file, see <command>man 5 fstab</command>.</para>
41
42 <para os="c">The <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> mount point
43 for <systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem> is included to
44 allow enabling POSIX-shared memory. The kernel must have the required
45 support built into it for this to work (more about this is in the next
46 section). Please note that very little software currently uses
47 POSIX-shared memory. Therefore, consider the <filename
48 class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> mount point optional. For more
49 information, see <filename>Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt</filename>
50 in the kernel source tree.</para>
51
52</sect1>
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