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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-26 00:37:06 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-26 00:37:06 +0000
commit01d43ab29c5618b38c41c75e5b155afc5b05f1dd (patch)
treeb3543c61a16271eb382ee68f04b4bc10769e6240 /share/man/man5/fstab.5
parent79664bbfef78e407d77f500003f78b59577ca8b6 (diff)
Some share/man fleshing.
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
index 980184775f7..c03825a128f 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.13 2000/10/13 04:09:21 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.14 2000/10/26 00:37:04 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fstab.5,v 1.5.2.1 1995/11/16 20:11:11 pk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
@@ -43,31 +43,29 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <fstab.h>
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The file
-.Nm fstab
-contains descriptive information about the various file
-systems.
-.Nm fstab
+The
+.Nm
+file contains descriptive information about the various file systems.
+.Nm
is only read by programs, and not written;
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.
The order of records in
-.Nm fstab
+.Nm
is important because
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
and
.Xr umount 8
sequentially iterate through
-.Nm fstab
+.Nm
doing their thing.
.Pp
The first field,
.Fa fs_spec ,
-describes the block special device or
-remote filesystem to be mounted.
+describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted.
For filesystems of type
.Tn ffs ,
the special file name is the block special file name,
@@ -75,8 +73,7 @@ and not the character special file name.
If a program needs the character special file name,
the program must create it by appending an
.Dq r
-after the
-last
+after the last
.Dq /
in the special file name.
.Pp
@@ -134,8 +131,7 @@ describes the mount options associated with the filesystem.
It is formatted as a comma separated list of options.
It contains at least the type of mount (see
.Fa fs_type
-below) plus any additional options
-appropriate to the filesystem type.
+below) plus any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type.
.Pp
The option
.Dq auto
@@ -150,13 +146,11 @@ If the options
.Dq userquota
and/or
.Dq groupquota
-are specified,
-the filesystem is automatically processed by the
+are specified, the filesystem is automatically processed by the
.Xr quotacheck 8
command, and user and/or group disk quotas are enabled with
.Xr quotaon 8 .
-By default,
-filesystem quotas are maintained in files named
+By default, filesystem quotas are maintained in files named
.Pa quota.user
and
.Pa quota.group
@@ -193,8 +187,7 @@ If
.Fa fs_type
is
.Dq sw
-then the special file is made available as a piece of swap
-space by the
+then the special file is made available as a piece of swap space by the
.Xr swapon 8
command at the end of the system reboot procedure.
The fields other than