The /etc/fstab
file is used by some
programs to determine where file systems are to be mounted by default,
in which order, and which must be checked (for integrity errors) prior
to mounting. Create a new file systems table like this:
cat > /etc/fstab << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/fstab
# file system mount-point type options dump fsck
# order
/dev/[xxx]
/ [fff]
defaults 1 1
/dev/[yyy]
swap swap pri=1 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
# End /etc/fstab
EOF
Replace [xxx]
,
[yyy]
, and [fff]
with the values appropriate for the system, for example, hda2
, hda5
, and ext2
. For details on the six
fields in this file, see man 5 fstab.
The /dev/shm
mount point
for tmpfs
is included to
allow enabling POSIX-shared memory. The kernel must have the required
support built into it for this to work (more about this is in the next
section). Please note that very little software currently uses
POSIX-shared memory. Therefore, consider the /dev/shm
mount point optional. For more
information, see Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
in the kernel source tree.