My most recent posts talk about the fstab file, mount options, and file system types. Now that we have those things out of the way, we can talk more in depth about mounting a file system.
There are three things that the system needs to know in order to mount a file system (like a USB […]
I think this entry will wrap up my look at the /etc/fstab file. In totally the wrong order, I’ve already talked about the mount options and this entry will talk about the possible values of the type column. The type column refers to file system type and can have the following possible values:
ext2 - this […]
I recent wrote about the format of the fstab file. One of the columns in the file specifies to the system how each file system should be mounted. There are a lot of possible options for that column, although the most common by far is defaults. Here are the other possibilities:
auto: allows the system to […]
The File System Table fiel (fstab) is usually located in at /etc/fstab. The file contains all of the file systems that are available to the system. Any file system listed in the fstab can be mounted and unmounted with little trouble (assuming it is physically present).
My fstab looks like this
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# […]
I knew that fsck was kind of the Linux version of DOS’s chkdsk, but that’s about all I knew. I’ve learned a little more about it now.
Each device has a superblock which contains the necessary information for Linux to access the rest of the data on the device. I’m thinking that this is akin to […]
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