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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
• Which file systems need to be dumped (by default a file system is not dumped)
• Which fsck pass looks at the file system

Each entry must be on a single line.

See the fstab(5) manual page.

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

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1

LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/sdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

/dev/vx/dsk/fsvol/vol1 /mnt1 vxfs defaults 0 2