Changeset 548d65f


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Timestamp:
09/21/2003 10:33:48 AM (21 years ago)
Author:
Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>
Branches:
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Message:

Cleaning and marking up the fstab section.

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  • chapter08/fstab.xml

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    33<?dbhtml filename="fstab.html" dir="chapter08"?>
    44
    5 <para>In order for certain programs to be able to determine where certain
    6 partitions are supposed to be mounted by default, the /etc/fstab file is
    7 used. Create a new file <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> containing the
    8 following:</para>
     5<para>The <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file is used by some programs to
     6determine where partitions are to be mounted by default, which file systems
     7must be checked and in which order. Create a new file systems table like
     8this:</para>
    99
    1010<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/fstab &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
    1111# Begin /etc/fstab
    1212
    13 # filesystem   mount-point fs-type    options     dump    fsck-order
     13# filesystem  mount-point  fs-type  options     dump  fsck-order
    1414
    15 /dev/*LFS*     /           *fs-type*  defaults    1       1
    16 /dev/*swap*    swap        swap       pri=1       0       0
    17 proc           /proc       proc       defaults    0       0
    18 shm            /dev/shm    tmpfs      defaults    0       0
     15/dev/xxx      /            fff      defaults    1     1
     16/dev/yyy      swap         swap     pri=1       0     0
     17proc          /proc        proc     defaults    0     0
     18shm           /dev/shm     tmpfs    defaults    0     0
    1919
    2020# End /etc/fstab
    2121<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
    2222
    23 <para><userinput>*LFS*</userinput>,
    24 <userinput>*swap*</userinput>
    25 and <userinput>*fs-type*</userinput> have to be replaced with the
    26 appropriate values (/dev/hda2, /dev/hda5 and reiserfs for example).</para>
     23<para>Of course, replace <filename>xxx</filename>, <filename>yyy</filename>
     24and <filename>fff</filename> with the values appropriate for your system --
     25for example <filename>hda2</filename>, <filename>hda5</filename> and
     26<filename>reiserfs</filename>. For all the details on the six fields in this
     27table, see <userinput>man 5 fstab</userinput>.</para>
    2728
    28 <para>When adding a reiserfs partition, the <userinput>1 1</userinput> at
    29 the end of the line should be replaced with <userinput>0 0</userinput>.</para>
     29<para>When using a reiserfs partition, the <emphasis>1 1</emphasis> at the
     30end of the line should be replaced with <emphasis>0 0</emphasis>, as such a
     31partition does not need to be dumped or checked</para>
    3032
    31 <para>A tmpfs mount is added at /dev/shm to comply with Posix shared memory
    32 requirements.  For more information, see the file
    33 Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt in the kernel source tree.</para>
     33<para>The <filename>/dev/shm</filename> mount point for tmpfs is included to
     34comply with Posix shared memory requirements.  For more information on this,
     35see <filename>Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt</filename> in the kernel
     36source tree.</para>
    3437
    35 <para>For more information on the various fields which are in the fstab
    36 file, see <userinput>man 5 fstab</userinput>.</para>
     38<para>There are other lines which you may consider adding to your
     39<filename>fstab</filename> file.  One example is the line which you must have
     40if you are using devpts:</para>
    3741
    38 <para>There are other lines which you may consider adding to your fstab
    39 file.  One example is the line which you must have if you are using
    40 devpts:</para>
    41 
    42 <para><screen>devpts         /dev/pts    devpts     gid=4,mode=620 0    0</screen></para>
     42<para><screen>devpts        /dev/pts     devpts   gid=4,mode=620  0     0</screen></para>
    4343
    4444<para>Another example is a line to use if you intend to use USB
    4545devices:</para>
    46 <para><screen>usbfs       /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults    0       0</screen></para>
     46<para><screen>usbfs       /proc/bus/usb  usbfs    defaults    0     0</screen></para>
    4747
    48 <para>Both of these options will only work if you have the relevant
     48<para>Both of these options will of course only work if you have the relevant
    4949support compiled into your kernel.</para>
    5050
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