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| .TH FSTAB 5 "27 November 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| fstab \- static information about the filesystems |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B #include <fstab.h> |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The file |
| .B fstab |
| contains descriptive information about the various file systems. |
| .B fstab |
| is only read by programs, and not written; it is the duty of the system |
| administrator to properly create and maintain this file. Each filesystem |
| is described on a separate line; fields on each line are separated by tabs |
| or spaces. The order of records in |
| .B fstab |
| is important because |
| .BR fsck "(8), " mount "(8), and " umount "(8) |
| sequentially iterate through |
| .B fstab |
| doing their thing. |
| |
| The first field, |
| .RI ( fs_spec ), |
| describes the block special device or |
| remote filesystem to be mounted. |
| |
| The second field, |
| .RI ( fs_file ), |
| describes the mount point for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this |
| field should be specified as ``none''. |
| |
| The third field, |
| .RI ( fs_vfstype ), |
| describes the type of the filesystem. The system currently supports these |
| types of filesystems (and possibly others - consult |
| .IR /proc/filesystems ): |
| .TP |
| .I minix |
| a local filesystem, supporting filenames of length 14 or 30 characters. |
| .TP |
| .I ext |
| a local filesystem with longer filenames and larger inodes. This |
| filesystem has been replaced by the |
| .I ext2 |
| file system, and should no longer be used. |
| .TP |
| .I ext2 |
| a local filesystem with longer filenames, larger inodes, and lots of other |
| features. |
| .TP |
| .I xiafs |
| a local filesystem with longer filenames, larger inodes, and lots of other |
| features. |
| .TP |
| .I msdos |
| a local filesystem for MS-DOS partitions. |
| .TP |
| .I hpfs |
| a local filesystem for HPFS partitions. |
| .TP |
| .I iso9660 |
| a local filesystem used for CD-ROM drives. |
| .TP |
| .I nfs |
| a filesystem for mounting partitions from remote systems. |
| .TP |
| .I swap |
| a disk partition to be used for swapping. |
| .PP |
| If |
| .I vfs_fstype |
| is specified as ``ignore'' the entry is ignored. This is useful to show |
| disk partitions which are currently unused. |
| |
| The fourth field, |
| .RI ( fs_mntops ), |
| describes the mount options associated with the filesystem. |
| |
| It is formatted as a comma separated list of options. It contains at least |
| the type of mount plus any additional options appropriate to the filesystem |
| type. For documentation on the available options for non-nfs file systems, |
| see |
| .BR mount (8). |
| For documentation on all nfs-specific options have a look at |
| .BR nfs (5). |
| |
| The fifth field, |
| .RI ( fs_freq ), |
| is used for these filesystems by the |
| .BR dump (8) |
| command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. If the fifth |
| field is not present, a value of zero is returned and |
| .B dump |
| will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped. |
| |
| The sixth field, |
| .RI ( fs_passno ), |
| is used by the |
| .BR fsck (8) |
| program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at |
| reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a |
| .I fs_passno |
| of 1, and other filesystems should have a |
| .I fs_passno |
| of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but |
| filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize |
| parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present |
| or zero, a value of zero is returned and |
| .B fsck |
| will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked. |
| |
| The proper way to read records from |
| .B fstab |
| is to use the routines |
| .BR getmntent (3). |
| .SH FILES |
| .I /etc/fstab |
| The file |
| .B fstab |
| resides in |
| .IR /etc . |
| .SH BUGS |
| The documentation in |
| .BR mount (8) |
| is often more up-to-date. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR getmntent "(3), " mount "(8), " swapon "(8), " nfs (5) |
| .SH HISTORY |
| The |
| .B fstab |
| file format appeared in 4.0BSD. |