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Fstab configuration

Fstab configuration - Linux Tutorial

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Fstab configuration

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- So how does Linux know which hard drive goes where? Let's talk. - [Narrator] You're watching ITProTV. (upbeat music) - Hello. Welcome back to LPIC-2. So okay. It's not intuitive. It doesn't know where the hard drives are and where they go. We have to talk to it a little bit, don't we? - Linux does a lot of things, but it is not psychic. It needs a way to know where to put the hard drives. And one way to do that is the file system table. That's what we're going to be learning about here in this episode. We'll see how the file system table works; how it is formatted so we can go in and edit, modify, change it to our needs; and we'll get a chance to see how to test it to make sure it's working properly so that our drives mount in the right spot. - So why would we want to mount the partitions using fstab versus something other? You know, another method. - Sure. So there are a few different ways that we can go about mounting disks in Linux. There's the file system table, which Zach…

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