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62 lines
2.9 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="ch-bootable-fstab">
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<title>Creating the /etc/fstab file</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="fstab.html"?>
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<indexterm zone="ch-bootable-fstab"><primary sortas="e-/etc/fstab">/etc/fstab</primary></indexterm>
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<para>The <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file is used by some programs to
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determine where file systems are to be mounted by default, which
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must be checked and in which order. Create a new file systems table like
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this:</para>
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<screen><userinput>cat > /etc/fstab << "EOF"
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# Begin /etc/fstab
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# file system mount-point fs-type options dump fsck-order
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/dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> / <replaceable>[fff]</replaceable> defaults 1 1
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/dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> swap swap pri=1 0 0
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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
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sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
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devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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# End /etc/fstab
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EOF</userinput></screen>
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<para>Of course, replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>, <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable>
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and <replaceable>[fff]</replaceable> with the values appropriate for your system --
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for example <filename class="partition">hda2</filename>, <filename class="partition">hda5</filename> and
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<systemitem class="filesystem">reiserfs</systemitem>. For all the details on the six fields in this
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table, see <command>man 5 fstab</command>.</para>
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<para>When using a reiserfs partition, the <parameter>1 1</parameter> at the
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end of the line should be replaced with <parameter>0 0</parameter>, as such a
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partition does not need to be dumped or checked</para>
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<para>The <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> mount point for
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<systemitem class="filesystem">tmpfs</systemitem> is included to
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allow enabling POSIX shared memory. Your kernel must have the required support
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built into it for this to work -- more about this in the next section. Please
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note that currently very little software actually uses POSIX shared memory.
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Therefore you can consider the <filename class="directory">/dev/shm</filename> mount point
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optional. For more information, see
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<filename>Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt</filename> in the kernel source
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tree.</para>
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<para>There are other lines which you may consider adding to your
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<filename>fstab</filename> file. One example is a line to use if you intend to
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use USB devices:</para>
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<screen> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0 </screen>
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<para>This option will of course only work if you have the
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"Support for Host-side USB" and "USB device filesystem"
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compiled into your kernel (not as a module).</para>
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</sect1>
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