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Editing the fstab file

You can edit the /etc/fstab file to mount a file system automatically at boot time.

You must specify the following:

• The special block device name to mount
• The mount point
• The file system type (vxfs)
• The mount options
• The backup frequency
• Which fsck pass looks at the file system

Each entry must be on a single line.

See the fstab(4) manual page.

The following is a typical fstab file with the new file system on the last line:

# System /etc/fstab file. Static
# information about the file systems
# See fstab(4) and sam(1M) for further
# details on configuring devices.
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand hfs defaults 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /home vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol8 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vx/dsk/fsvol /ext vxfs delaylog 0 2