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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-01-13 10:23:36 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-01-13 10:23:36 +0000
commit172e438e87155eb5c731a44efb5d9901ee8a6e2a (patch)
tree827049fbc5426bf9fdfe53d1d73b132e13d44627
parentdfb9de51258ad1f374844313a86f6042067b3b5b (diff)
document comments, and provide a 1-line summary of what a line in
fstab looks like; from michael knudsen;
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/fstab.510
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
index dcd7203cb5d..e52c5a96aa8 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.27 2003/06/06 13:28:13 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.28 2005/01/13 10:23:35 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fstab.5,v 1.5.2.1 1995/11/16 20:11:11 pk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ it is the duty of the system administrator to properly create
and maintain this file.
Each filesystem is described on a separate line;
fields on each line are separated by tabs or spaces.
+Lines beginning with the
+.Sq #
+character are comments and are ignored.
The order of records in
.Nm
is important because
@@ -59,6 +62,11 @@ sequentially iterate through
.Nm
doing their thing.
.Pp
+A line has the following format:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+fs_spec fs_file fs_vfstype fs_mntops fs_freq fs_passno
+.Ed
+.Pp
The first field,
.Fa fs_spec ,
describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted.