There are two files which may be of help,  and have similar syntax
to /etc/fstab.   The two files are  /etc/mtab  (maintained by the
'mount'  command program)  and  /proc/mounts  (kernel space).
Look at them,  then decide if you want to do it manually once
or automate for repeat performance.

-- R;

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, James Melin wrote:

> Is thre a utility that can examine file systems that are mounted and
> generate a new fstab?
>
> Obviously after I do that single disk copy to the multiple HFS struture I
> need to create a new fstab
>
> If there's no utility that anyone knows, how does one get an fstab that
> looks something like this:
>
> pepin:~ # cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/dasda1          /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 1
> /dev/dasdb1          /boot                ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdd1          /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasde1          /opt                 ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdf1          /opt/IBM/WebSphere   ext2       ro,acl
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdc1          /root                ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdg1          /tmp                 ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdh1          /usr                 ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdi1          /var                 ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdj1          /work                ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 2
> /dev/dasdk1          swap                 swap       pri=42
> 0 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5
> 0 0
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults
> 0 0
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto
> 0 0
>
> from this:
>
> vadnais:/etc # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/dasdb1            2125924   1927060     90872  96% /
> tmpfs                   510532         0    510532   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/dasdc1             209120    141756     56572  72% /mnt
> /dev/dasdd1              52200      8948     40560  19% /mnt/boot
> /dev/dasde1              34764       460     32512   2% /mnt/root
> /dev/dasdf1             191680     90384     91404  50% /mnt/home
> /dev/dasdk1             418344     65364    331388  17% /mnt/var
> /dev/dasdi1             850292        20    807080   1% /mnt/tmp
> /dev/dasda1             850292        20    807080   1% /mnt/work
> /dev/dasdg1            2763768    141052   2482324   6% /mnt/opt
> /dev/dasdj1            2976336   1446328   1378816  52% /mnt/usr
> /dev/dasdh1             237720         4    225448   1%
> /mnt/opt/IBM/WebSphere
>
> The existing fstab for the single disk system that gets copied from the
> single volume system looks like:
>
> vadnais:/etc # cat fstab
> /dev/dasdb1          /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr
> 1 1
> /dev/dasdl1          swap                 swap       pri=42
> 0 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5
> 0 0
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults
> 0 0
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto
> 0 0
>
> Specifically I'm interested in figuring out how to examine a file system,
> determine if it's ext3, ext2, reiser, etc,and what the attributes should be
> (like acl,usr_xattr and the 1 1 or 1 2 stuff) The fstab example was
> generated by a manual install of the sles 9 system I am now trying to
> re-create via the single disk clone and copy to final destination method.
>
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