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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-26 04:26:01 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-26 04:26:01 +0000
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--- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: fstab.5,v 1.7 1998/11/26 04:25:58 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fstab.5,v 1.5.2.1 1995/11/16 20:11:11 pk Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
@@ -64,59 +65,66 @@ sequentially iterate through
doing their thing.
.Pp
The first field,
-.Pq Fa fs_spec ,
+.Fa fs_spec ,
describes the block special device or
remote filesystem to be mounted.
For filesystems of type
-.Em ffs ,
+.Tn ffs ,
the special file name is the block special file name,
and not the character special file name.
If a program needs the character special file name,
-the program must create it by appending a ``r'' after the
-last ``/'' in the special file name.
+the program must create it by appending an
+.Dq r
+after the
+last
+.Dq /
+in the special file name.
.Pp
The second field,
-.Pq Fa fs_file ,
+.Fa fs_file ,
describes the mount point for the filesystem.
-For swap partitions, this field should be specified as ``none''.
+For swap partitions, this field should be specified as
+.Dq none .
.Pp
The third field,
-.Pq Fa fs_vfstype ,
+.Fa fs_vfstype ,
describes the type of the filesystem.
The system currently supports eleven types of filesystems:
-.Bl -tag -width indent -offset indent
-.It Em adosfs
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width indent -offset indent -compact
+.It adosfs
An
.Tn AmigaDOS
-filesystem
-.It Em cd9660
-an ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem
-.It Em fdesc
-an implementation of /dev/fd
-.It Em ffs
-a local
+filesystem.
+.It cd9660
+An ISO9660 CD-ROM filesystem.
+.It fdesc
+An implementation of
+.Pa /dev/fd .
+.It ffs
+A local
.Tn UNIX
-filesystem
-.It Em kernfs
-various and sundry kernel statistics
-.It Em mfs
-a local memory-based
+filesystem.
+.It kernfs
+Various and sundry kernel statistics.
+.It mfs
+A local memory-based
.Tn UNIX
-filesystem
-.It Em msdos
-a MSDOS ``FAT'' filesystem
-.It Em nfs
-a Sun Microsystems compatible ``Network File System''
-.It Em procfs
-a local filesystem of process information
-.It Em swap
-a disk partition to be used for swapping
-.It Em union
-a translucent filesystem
+filesystem.
+.It msdos
+An MS-DOS FAT filesystem.
+.It nfs
+A Sun Microsystems compatible Network File System.
+.It procfs
+A local filesystem containing process information.
+.It swap
+A disk partition to be used for swapping.
+.It union
+A translucent filesystem.
.El
.Pp
The fourth field,
-.Pq Fa fs_mntops ,
+.Fa fs_mntops ,
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
@@ -124,11 +132,20 @@ It contains at least the type of mount (see
below) plus any additional options
appropriate to the filesystem type.
.Pp
-The option ``auto'' can be used in the ``noauto'' form to cause
-a file system not to be mounted automatically (with ``mount -a'',
-or system boot time).
+The option
+.Dq auto
+can be used in the
+.Dq noauto
+form to cause
+a file system not to be mounted automatically (with
+.Ic mount -a ,
+or at system boot time).
.Pp
-If the options ``userquota'' and/or ``groupquota'' are specified,
+If the options
+.Dq userquota
+and/or
+.Dq groupquota
+are specified,
the filesystem is automatically processed by the
.Xr quotacheck 8
command, and user and/or group disk quotas are enabled with
@@ -159,13 +176,19 @@ field (it is not deleted from the
field).
If
.Fa fs_type
-is ``rw'' or ``ro'' then the filesystem whose name is given in the
+is
+.Dq rw
+or
+.Dq ro
+then the filesystem whose name is given in the
.Fa fs_file
field is normally mounted read-write or read-only on the
specified special file.
If
.Fa fs_type
-is ``sw'' then the special file is made available as a piece of swap
+is
+.Dq sw
+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.
@@ -176,11 +199,13 @@ and
are unused.
If
.Fa fs_type
-is specified as ``xx'' the entry is ignored.
+is specified as
+.Dq xx
+the entry is ignored.
This is useful to show disk partitions which are currently unused.
.Pp
The fifth field,
-.Pq Fa fs_freq ,
+.Fa fs_freq ,
is used for these filesystems by the
.Xr dump 8
command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped.
@@ -189,7 +214,7 @@ If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and
will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped.
.Pp
The sixth field,
-.Pq Fa fs_passno ,
+.Fa fs_passno ,
is used by the
.Xr fsck 8
program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done
@@ -204,7 +229,7 @@ but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the
same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware.
If the sixth field is not present or is zero,
a value of zero is returned and
-.Xr fsck
+.Xr fsck 8
will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
.Bd -literal
#define FSTAB_RW "rw" /* read-write device */
@@ -234,10 +259,6 @@ and
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/fstab -compact
.It Pa /etc/fstab
-The file
-.Nm fstab
-resides in
-.Pa /etc .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getfsent 3