# Lines starting with hash (#) are comments, not read by programs 
# /etc/fstab: information about how different partitions in the 
# hard disk are mounted in the Linux directories 
# Each entry has 6 fields: 
# block_device: the partition in the hard disk, another device 
#        pseudo partition or in a 
#        directory in a remote machine 
# mount pount: local directory where the partition is mounted
# type: type of partition or file system
# options, plenty of them, see fstab (5) and mount (8)
# dump: whether partition should be dumped for backups 
# pass: order on which fsck checks the partitions at booting time;
#       the root partition should have a 1, 
#       the others 2; partitions in the 
#       same hard disk are checked 
#       sequentially, in different drives are 
#       checked at the same time; NFS and 
#       other partitions should not be checked

# In the example below no partition is dumped, so the field is 0
# 1. The first partition of the first drive is the root partition, of type
# ext2; if the partition contains errors is mounted in read-only mode
# 2. The second partition is swap, no fsck 
# 3. The third partition is a pseudo-partition, proc, no fsck 
# 4. The next one is the third partition in the hard disk, mounted in /usr
# with fsck value of 2 and read-only option
# 5. The next is the CDROM device, no fsck 
# 6. The next is an entry to allow users to mount the file /cdwrite/cd.sio
# under /mnt to check if an ISO image (to be written in a CD) is correct
# The option noauto is so that it is not mounted at boot time (the 
# file might not exists!); the option user allows any user to mount
# and umount it; the option loop is needed to mount a file as a
# partition
# 7. Finally, the last entry is to mount a remote partition in the host
# "server" as a local partition under /import

/dev/hda1	/	ext2	defaults,errors=remount-ro	0	1
/dev/hda2	none	swap	sw				0	1
proc		/proc	proc	defaults			0	0
/dev/hda3	/usr	ext2	defaults,ro			0	2
/dev/cdrom	/cdrom	iso9660	defaults,ro,user,noauto		0	0
/cdwrite/cd.iso	/mnt	iso9660	ro,noauto,user,loop=/dev/loop	0	0
server:/export	/import	nfs	rw				0	0