blob: 80b515f1520140400be10587496e81a59af9f83a (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
|
<sect1 id="ch08-fstab">
<title>Creating the /etc/fstab file</title>
<?dbhtml filename="fstab.html" dir="chapter08"?>
<para>In order for certain programs to be able to determine where certain
partitions are supposed to be mounted by default, the /etc/fstab file is
used. Create a new file <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> containing the
following:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>cat > /etc/fstab << "EOF"</userinput>
# Begin /etc/fstab
# filesystem mount-point fs-type options dump fsck-order
/dev/*LFS* / *fs-type* defaults 1 1
/dev/*swap* swap swap pri=1 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
# End /etc/fstab
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
<para><userinput>*LFS*</userinput>,
<userinput>*swap*</userinput>
and <userinput>*fs-type*</userinput> have to be replaced with the
appropriate values (/dev/hda2, /dev/hda5 and reiserfs for example).</para>
<para>When adding a reiserfs partition, the <userinput>1 1</userinput> at
the end of the line should be replaced with <userinput>0 0</userinput>.</para>
<para>A tmpfs mount is added at /dev/shm to comply with Posix shared memory
requirements. For more information, see the file
Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt in the kernel source tree.</para>
<para>For more information on the various fields which are in the fstab
file, see <userinput>man 5 fstab</userinput>.</para>
<para>There are other lines which you may consider adding to your fstab
file. One example is the line which you must have if you are using
devpts:</para>
<para><screen>devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0</screen></para>
<para>Another example is a line to use if you intend to use USB
devices:</para>
<para><screen>usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0</screen></para>
<para>Both of these options will only work if you have the relevant
support compiled into your kernel.</para>
</sect1>
|
