fstab options for swap documented where?

11-09-2009, 03:22 PM

I'm trying to find documentation for the mount options for swap, but am
turning up nothing in the man pages for fstab, swapon, or mount. Where
are the options documented?

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11-09-2009, 06:08 PM

> I'm trying to find documentation for the mount options for swap, but am
> turning up nothing in the man pages for fstab, swapon, or mount. Where
> are the options documented?

The Ubuntu fstab man page has pretty much the same output as "man
fstab" in Debian:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man5/fstab.5.html

The fourth field for swap is unexplained.

The FreeBSD fstab man page does explain the fourth field (and skips
the third...):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstab&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Fr eeBSD+7.2-RELEASE&format=html

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