Thread: fstab problem

hey all

i'm going through processes of learning/understanding cli going through tutorials on different sites few different ways of doing things rather sticking 1 persons way of doing things , far good, seems logical.

confusing me have got 'editing , understanding fstab' on 1 particular site http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
instead of nice neat rows of understandable text get

/etc$ cat fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# use 'blkid -o value -s uuid' print universally unique identifier
# device; may used uuid= more robust way name
# devices works if disks added , removed. see fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / on /dev/sda1 during installation
uuid=********-****-****-****-************ / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap on /dev/sda5 during installation
uuid=********-****-****-****-*********eda none swap sw 0 0

i've got no idea means (i've blanked out numbers/letters uuid= i'm not sure if should printing them online or not, if needed can put them on later post.
can tell me why coming , how change /use command make legible pls

i'm nooby, have been going through of "fstab" "blkid" uuid" stuff past few days, , beings no 1 has replied yet tell little know, until 1 more knowledgeable comes on.
uuid unique identifier given devices random won't duplicated anywhere. if go terminal , type "sudo blkid" ( without quotes of course, these unique identifiers partitions on hd. "fstab" file in /etc directory file read @ boot , identifiers in fstab file must match shown doing blkid command.
on file displayed ( fstab file ), # @ beginning of lines not mean computer, remarks humans read, can put after them want.

example, post of this:

code:

uuid=********-****-****-****-************ / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

would mean unique identifier ****whatever "/"
root directory , "ext4" type of file system uuid. don't know "errors=remoutsetcetcetc" mean.

have uuid swap partition , people have more 2 partitions , fstab file need know each of them data correctly wrote right place.

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