fstab cheatsheet
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/fstab.5.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/mount.8.html
Examples
- External USB-Harddisk
- UUID=abc-123 /media/usbdisk ext4 noatime,noexec,nobootwait,nofail 0 2
Options
- file system
- Get UUID: blkid
- options
- default
- use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser and async.
- relatime
- access times are only updated if they are (before the update) earlier than the modification time
- noatime
- turns off the tracking of access times
- errors
- user
- Permit any user to mount the filesystem. This automatically implies noexec, nosuid,nodev unless overridden.
- noauto
- do not mount when "mount -a" is given (e.g., at boot time)
- exec /noexec
- Permit/Prevent the execution of binaries from the filesystem.
- suid/nosuid
- Permit/Block the operation of suid, and sgid bits.
- utf8
- nobootwait
- nofail
- do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.
- bg
- default
- dump
- Legacy for backup. Not used. Use "0"
- pass
- 0 = no fscheck
- 1 = primary check e.g. for root
- 2 = not so important disks