.TH FSTAB 5

.SH NAME

fstab, mtab \- list of file systems to mount, mounted file system table.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B /etc/fstab

.sp

.B /etc/mtab

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B /etc/fstab

is a table of file system to mount at boot time,

.B /etc/mtab

is a table of currently mounted file systems as maintained by

.B mount

and

.BR umount .

.PP

.B /etc/fstab

is not read by

.B mount

as it should be. It is instead a simple shell script listing the

three devices that MINIX 3 needs to operate: the device names of the root

file system, the file system for

.BR /home ,

and the file system for

.BR /usr .

.PP

.B /etc/mtab

contains lines of four fields. The layout is:

.sp

.RS

.nf

.ft B

.ta +10n +13n +8n

device directory type options

.ft P

.fi

.RE

.PP

These fields may be explained as follows:

.sp

.B device

.br

.RS

A block special device.

.RE

.sp

.B directory

.br

.RS

Mount point.

.RE

.sp

.B type

.br

.RS

Either

.BR 1 ,

.BR 2 ,

or

.BR 3 ,

indicating a V1, a V2, or a V3 file system.

.RE

.sp

.B options

.br

.RS

Either

.BR ro ,

or

.BR rw ,

indicating a read-only or read-write mounted file system.

.RE

.SH FILES

.TP 15n

.B /etc/fstab

Shell script naming three important file systems.

.TP

.B /etc/mtab

List of mounted file systems.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR printroot (8),

.BR mount (1),

.BR fsck (1),

.BR mkfs (1).

.SH BUGS

.B /etc/fstab

is a joke.

.SH AUTHOR

Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)