source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/bootable/common/fstab.xml@ d1484fa

Last change on this file since d1484fa was bd48e48, checked in by Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@…>, 18 years ago

Updated CLFS-Embedded 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; ${CLFS}/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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