Introduction

The configuration file /etc/fstab contain the necessary information to mount of the disk. This file comes read at the start of the system and can be modified only by [:SudoRoot:root] user.

Content of file

It is possible to visualize this file with the followed commands:

cat /etc/fstab

The result of the previous commando will be similar to following:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# /dev/hda1
UUID=12102C02102CEB83 /media/windows  ntfs      silent,umask=0,locale=it_IT.utf8        0       0

# /dev/hda2
UUID=cee15eca-5b2e-48ad-9735-eae5ac14bc90 none swap sw 0 0

# /dev/hda3
UUID=98E0-6D24 /media/dati vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,nouser 0 0

# /dev/hda4
UUID=0aa86c61-0df9-4f1a-8b0b-34abbee6b769 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

Every no-commented line is composed by six lives:

Campo	Descrizione
file system	it indicates the containing device the rows system
mount point	it indicates the directory (or mount point) from which it will be possible to approach the content of the device (for the swap is not demanded the mount point)
type	type of file system
options	options of access to the device (commando mount)
dump	turn ON/OFF the backup of file system (the command dump). This option is obsolete .
pass	turn ON/OFF the control of coherence of the disc (the command fsck)

Other resources

[:UsingUUID:UUID]