| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 | <sect1 id="ch07-fstab"><title>Creating the /etc/fstab file</title><para>In order for certain programs to be able to determine where certainpartitions are supposed to be mounted by default, the /etc/fstab file isused. A new file <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> is created containing thefollowing:</para><literallayout><userinput>cat > /etc/fstab << "EOF"</userinput># Begin /etc/fstab/dev/<LFS-partition designation> / <fs-type> defaults 1 1/dev/<swap-partition designation> swap swap defaults 0 0proc /proc proc defaults 0 0# End /etc/fstab<userinput>EOF</userinput></literallayout><para><LFS-partition designation>, <swap-partitiondesignation> and <fs-type> have to be replaced with the appropriate values(/dev/hda2, /dev/hda5 and reiserfs for example).</para></sect1>
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