Translations:Handbook:Parts/Installation/System/8/en


 * 1) The first field shows the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted. Several kinds of device identifiers are available for block special device nodes, including paths to device files, filesystem labels and UUIDs, and partition labels and UUIDs.
 * 2) The second field shows the mount point at which the partition should be mounted.
 * 3) The third field shows the type of filesystem used by the partition.
 * 4) The fourth field shows the mount options used by  when it wants to mount the partition. As every filesystem has its own mount options, so system admins are encouraged to read the mount man page  for a full listing. Multiple mount options are comma-separated.
 * 5) The fifth field is used by dump to determine if the partition needs to be dumped or not. This can generally be left as   (zero).
 * 6) The sixth field is used by  to determine the order in which filesystems should be checked if the system wasn't shut down properly. The root filesystem should have   while the rest should have   (or   if a filesystem check is not necessary).