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home | helpFSTAB(5) File Formats Manual FSTAB(5) NAME fstab, mtab - list of file systems to mount, mounted file system table. SYNOPSIS /etc/fstab /etc/mtab DESCRIPTION /etc/fstab is a table of file system to mount at boot time, /etc/mtab is a table of currently mounted file systems as maintained by mount and umount. /etc/fstab is not read by mount as it should be. It is instead a simple shell script listing the two or three devices that MINIX 3 needs to operate: The device names of the root file system, the swap file system (optional), and the file system for /usr. /etc/mtab contains lines of four fields. The layout is: device directory type options These fields may be explained as follows: device A block special device. directory Mount point. type Either 1, 2, or swap, indicating a V1 or a V2 file system, or swap space. options Either ro, or rw, indicating a read-only or read-write mounted file system. FILES /etc/fstab Shell script naming three important file systems. /etc/mtab List of mounted file systems. SEE ALSO printroot(8), mount(1), fsck(1), mkfs(1). BUGS /etc/fstab is a joke. AUTHOR Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) FSTAB(5)
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