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| author | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:39 +0100 |
| commit | 7eda085c41faa3445b4b168ce78ab18dab87d98a (patch) | |
| tree | eb8da4baebd0af68fa84818d3d51b4a3714667fc /mount/fstab.5 | |
| parent | Imported from util-linux-2.9i tarball. (diff) | |
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diff --git a/mount/fstab.5 b/mount/fstab.5 index d343538db..5b85fb996 100644 --- a/mount/fstab.5 +++ b/mount/fstab.5 @@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ .\" Sat Nov 27 20:23:32 1993: Updated authorship information .\" Wed Jul 26 00:00:00 1995: Updated some nfs stuff, joey@infodrom.north.de .\" Tue Apr 2 00:38:28 1996: added info about "noauto", "user", etc. +.\" Tue Jun 15 20:02:18 1999: added LABEL and UUID .\" -.TH FSTAB 5 "27 November 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH FSTAB 5 "15 June 1999" "Linux 2.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME fstab \- static information about the filesystems .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -66,11 +67,28 @@ The first field, .RI ( fs_spec ), describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted. +.LP +For ordinary mounts it will hold (a link to) a block special +device node (as created by +.BR mknod (8)) +for the device to be mounted, like `/dev/cdrom' or `/dev/sdb7'. +For NFS mounts one will have <host>:<dir>, e.g., `knuth.aeb.nl:/'. +For procfs, use `proc'. +.LP +Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate +the (ext2) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or +volume label (cf. +.BR e2label (8)), +writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>, +e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or `UUID=3e6be9de\%-8139\%-11d1\%-9106\%-a43f08d823a6'. +This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk +changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label. The second field, .RI ( fs_file ), describes the mount point for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this -field should be specified as ``none''. +field should be specified as `none'. If the name of the mount point +contains spaces these can be escaped as `\\040'. The third field, .RI ( fs_vfstype ), |