[Gllug] reg /etc/fstab

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Mon Jun 9 11:27:01 UTC 2003


"Shabir (Aureex Corporation)" writes:

>I am building my own customized installation,towards this 
>step i want to mount all my partitions (hard drives) 
>during installation itself. I wan to know how /etc/fstab 
>file is generated during installation.

The install process asks the user which partitions to create, and which
filesystems it's put on them. It's therefore a pretty trivial process to
dump that information out to /etc/fstab. Note that the install process
itself probably won't use /etc/fstab, and will likely just use mount(2)
directly.

Tet

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