From 7eda085c41faa3445b4b168ce78ab18dab87d98a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:25:39 +0100 Subject: Imported from util-linux-2.9v tarball. --- mount/fstab.5 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mount/fstab.5') 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 :, 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=