FSTAB(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 sim-
ple shell script listing the three devices that MINIX 3 needs to oper-
ate: the device names of the root file system, the file system for
/home, 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 3, indicating a V1, a V2, or a V3 file system.
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 (
[email protected])
FSTAB(5)