Informs your Linux system of your partition mounting preferences.
Also controls the filesystem type assumed by mount, so be careful with incorrect settings.
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/etc/fstab
- raidtools > fstab with raidtools
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https://web.archive.org/web/20060218103510/http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
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Troubleshooting ∞
mount: only root can mount /dev/sr0 on /mnt/dvd ∞
edit your /etc/fstab with:
/dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,ro 0 0
(date unknown) – Ancient notes ∞
Spoiler
# /boot was PREVIOUSLY re-integrated into things.. so that hdb1 can be used for fat32 stuff: # 8,p /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,nouser,ro,noatime 1 2 # 200,p /dev/hda2 swap swap sw 0 0 # 200,l (500) /dev/hda5 / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime 1 1 # 50,l /dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 1 2 # 50++,l (500) /dev/hda7 /var ext3 nosuid,noexec,noatime 1 2 # 50++,l (500) /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 1 2 # 800,l (~) /dev/hda9 /usr ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,noatime 1 2 # ~remaining /dev/hda10 /_honeypot/honey/linux ext3 rw,suid,dev,auto,nouser,async,noatime 1 2 # 2000 #/dev/hdc1 /_honeypot/fat32 vfat rw,suid,dev,auto,nouser,async,noatime,check=strict 1 0 ## removed: ### 100 ##/dev/hdc5 /_honeypot/honey/fat16 vfat rw,suid,dev,auto,nouser,async,noatime,check=strict 1 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async 0 0 #/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
even more ancient notes ∞
Spoiler
# 200 /dev/hda2 swap swap sw 0 0 # 500 /dev/hda5 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 1 1 # 8 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,nouser,ro 1 2 # 50 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async 1 2 # 50 /dev/hda7 /var ext3 nosuid,noexec 1 2 # 700 /dev/hda8 /tmp ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async 1 2 # 1000 /dev/hda9 /usr ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async 1 2 # 7000 /dev/hda10 /_poohbear/_archive ext3 nosuid 1 2 # 30000 /dev/hda11 /_poohbear/_mp3 ext3 nosuid,noexec 1 2 # shut down for now.. interferes with booting off of honeypot.. I think # 500 #/dev/hda3 /_poohbear/_fat16 vfat rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,check=strict 1 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc rw,suid,exec,auto,nouser,async 0 0

ported and tidied up
added ancient notes