88 lines
1.3 KiB
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88 lines
1.3 KiB
Groff
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.TH FSTAB 5
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.SH NAME
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fstab, mtab \- list of file systems to mount, mounted file system table.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B /etc/fstab
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.sp
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.B /etc/mtab
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B /etc/fstab
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is a table of file system to mount at boot time,
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.B /etc/mtab
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is a table of currently mounted file systems as maintained by
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.B mount
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and
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.BR umount .
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.PP
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.B /etc/fstab
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is not read by
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.B mount
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as it should be. It is instead a simple shell script listing the two or
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three devices that Minix needs to operate: The device names of the root
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file system, the swap file system (optional), and the file system for
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.BR /usr .
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.PP
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.B /etc/mtab
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contains lines of four fields. The layout is:
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.sp
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.RS
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.nf
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.ft B
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.ta +10n +13n +8n
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device directory type options
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.ft P
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.fi
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.RE
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.PP
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These fields may be explained as follows:
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.sp
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.B device
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.br
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.RS
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A block special device.
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.RE
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.sp
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.B directory
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.br
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.RS
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Mount point.
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.RE
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.sp
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.B type
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.br
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.RS
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Either
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.BR 1 ,
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.BR 2 ,
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or
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.BR swap ,
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indicating a V1 or a V2 file system, or swap space.
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.RE
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.sp
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.B options
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.br
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.RS
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Either
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.BR ro ,
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or
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.BR rw ,
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indicating a read-only or read-write mounted file system.
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.RE
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.SH FILES
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.TP 15n
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.B /etc/fstab
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Shell script naming three important file systems.
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.TP
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.B /etc/mtab
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List of mounted file systems.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR printroot (8),
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.BR mount (1),
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.BR fsck (1),
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.BR mkfs (1).
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.SH BUGS
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.B /etc/fstab
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is a joke.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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