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
• dump
  • Legacy for backup. Not used. Use "0"
• pass
  • 0 = no fscheck
  • 1 = primary check e.g. for root
  • 2 = not so important disks