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Red Hat Certified System Administrator EX200 (RHEL 10) · Domain 6: Create and configure file systems

/etc/fstab fields: device, mount point, type, options, dump, fsck order

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/etc/fstab (file system table) lists file systems to mount at boot. Each non-comment line has six fields separated by spaces or tabs. You will edit this file on nearly every RHCSA storage task, so learn the fields in order until you can write a line without looking.

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