adding mounts to /etc/fstab

ted_chou12 · 08-11-2012, 08:09 PM

Hi, I am trying to add mounts to fstab, but I am quite a biggininner. Here is the line I have came up:

Code:

# Basic USB filesystem
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0

# example of a VFAT USB pendrive
#/dev/sda1  /mnt/pendrive vfat   fmask=111,dmask=0,noauto,user,quiet,shortname=mixed 0 0

#***********************Mount sda3 on main drive to /mnt/main
**********************/dev/sda3 /mnt/main

# Swap partitions
# The 'sw' option means auto activating with 'swapon -a'.
*******************************************sw -a /dev/sda2

#Local Area Network Shares
*********************//192.168.1.9/Desktop /mnt/win cifs 0 0

The lines with huge amounts of asteriks are the ones that I am trying to add, I have tried to read the tutorials online, but fstab file is quite an important file at bootup, I don't want to mess it up.
the /dev/sda3 is a logical partition in the hard disk that I am trying to map to mnt main.
I am trying to create a swap and map it to /dev/sda2 ~500mb roughly this amount of space (I am not sure how to check if the swap is successfully up and running as well).
Lastly, I am trying to map a local area share on to a folder in the mnt folder.
Thank you,
Ted.

frankbell · 08-11-2012, 09:09 PM

It looks like uou are missing important information, particularly the file system type, ownership, read-only or read/write, and so on, in the lines you added.

This is the best introduction to fstab that I've found:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

And this is a good article on using UUIDs in fstab:

http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...tab-with-uuid/