How To Use Etc Fstab

Static file system information.

How to use etc fstab. This file will be created updated during the system installation. The answer lies in the etc fstab file. Use blkid to print the universally unique identifier for a device. Restoring the fstab backup download the backup of the fstab bak file from your cloud storage and place it in the system backups folder or if the file is still there use the cd command and go to home username system backups folder. They are the partition on the existing hard drive dev sda1 and the swap file system.

Hopefully you now have a better grasp of the purpose of etc fstab and can make sense of what is shown on your system. In this file a table of instructions for each permanently mounted hard disk is being maintained. Open the fstab file in an editor. Static file system information. This file is used to control what file systems are mounted when the system boots as well as to supply default values for other file systems that may be mounted manually from time to time.

Many casual users do not use this file. We re using gedit an easy to use editor found in most linux distributions. In this tutorial we will learn to know its structure in details and the syntax we can use to specify each entry in the file. Be careful not to alter these entries. The editor appears with your fstab file loaded in it.

This may be used with uuid as a more robust way to name devices that works even if disks are added and removed. The etc fstab file is one of the important configuration file used by linux machines which specify the devices and partitions available and where how to use these partitions. Use blkid to print the universally unique identifier for a device. This may be used with uuid as a more robust way to name devices that works even if disks are added and removed. Etc fstab.

You need to modify or maintain it in the way you need to use the devices partitions. This fstab file is kept in etc directory by default. If we read the file fstab a table will be shown with some entry. Here is a sample etc fstab file. Full form of fstab can be elaborated to understand as file system table.