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160 Part II . Running the Show Table 4-4 (continued) Type Description swap Used for swap partitions. Swap areas are used to hold data temporarily when RAM is currently used up. Data is swapped to the swap area and then returned to RAM when it is needed again. nfs Network File System (NFS) type of file system. NFS is used to mount file systems on other Linux or UNIX computers. hpfs File system is used to do read-only mounts of an OS/2 HPFS file system. ncpfs This relates to Novell NetWare file systems. NetWare file systems can be mounted over a network. ntfs Windows NT file system. It is supported as a read-only file system (so that you can mount and copy files from it). Read-write support is available but considered unreliable (some say dangerous). affs File system is used with Amiga computers. ufs File system popular on Sun Microsystems operating systems (that is, Solaris and SunOS). Using the fstab File to Define Mountable File Systems The hard disk partitions on your local computer and the remote file systems you use every day are probably set up to automatically mount when you boot Linux. The /etc/fstab file contains definitions for each partition, along with options describing how the partition is mounted. Here s an example of an /etc/fstab file: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder udf,iso9660 exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 All partitions listed in this file are mounted at boot time, except for those set to noauto in the fourth field. In this example, the root (/) and boot (/boot) hard disk partitions are mounted at boot time, along with the /dev/pts, /dev/shm, /dev/sys, /dev/shm, and /proc file systems (which are not associated with particular storage devices). The CD drive (/dev/hdc) and floppy disk (/dev/fd0)
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