source: BOOK/system-config/common/fstab.xml@ 7ddb05f

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Last change on this file since 7ddb05f was 4c0610b4, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 11 years ago

Updated example partition names in fstab page

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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-config-fstab">
9 <?dbhtml filename="fstab.html"?>
10
11 <title>Creating the /etc/fstab File</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-config-fstab">
14 <primary sortas="e-/etc/fstab">/etc/fstab</primary>
15 <secondary>system config</secondary>
16 </indexterm>
17
18 <para os="a">The <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file is used by some
19 programs to determine where file systems are to be mounted by default,
20 in which order, and which must be checked (for integrity errors) prior
21 to mounting. Create a new file systems table like this:</para>
22
23<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/fstab &lt;&lt; "EOF"
24<literal># Begin /etc/fstab
25
26# file system mount-point type options dump fsck
27# order
28
29/dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> / <replaceable>[fff]</replaceable> defaults 1 1
30/dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> swap swap pri=1 0 0
31devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=&gid-tty;,mode=620 0 0
32shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
33
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">sda2</filename>, <filename
41 class="partition">sda5</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</sect1>
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