>>http://linux.die.net/man/5/fstab
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_43_10749.shtm
>>===fstab===

The **first** field, (fs_spec), describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted.

The **second** field, (fs_file), describes the mount point for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be specified as 'none'. 

The **third** field, (fs_vfstype), describes the type of the filesystem. 
An entry swap denotes a file or partition to be used for swapping, cf. swapon(8). 

The **fourth** field, (fs_mntops), describes the mount options associated with the filesystem.
It is formatted as a comma separated list of options. It contains at least the type of mount plus any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type. 

The **fifth** field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped.

The **sixth** field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. 
The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. 
If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked. 

===removable devices===
removable devices are confirgured differently between red hat, centos, rhel, oel 3 & 4 & 5

==3==
%%
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
%%

==4==
%%
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
%%

==5==
not at all !

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