Package: mount
Version: 2.20.1-5.5
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man5/fstab.5.gz
The first field (fs_spec).
This field describes the block special device or remote filesys-
tem to be mounted.
For ordinary mounts it will hold (a link to) a block special
device node (as created by mknod(8)) for the device to be
mounted, like `/dev/cdrom' or `/dev/sdb7'. For NFS mounts one
will have <host>:<dir>, e.g., `knuth.aeb.nl:/'. For procfs, use
`proc'.
Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the
(ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or
volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)), writing
LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>, e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or
`UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will make the
system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk changes the
disk device name but not the filesystem volume label.
Note that mount(8) uses UUIDs as strings. The string representa-
tion of the UUID should be based on lower case characters.
...The third field (fs_vfstype)...
An entry swap denotes a file or partition to be used for swap-
ping, cf. swapon(8). An entry ignore causes the line to be
ignored. This is useful to show disk partitions which are cur-
rently unused. An entry none is useful for bind or move mounts.
OK, then The first field (fs_spec) above should mention swap file paths
can be used too.
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