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