Use this procedure to mount non-ZFS file systems at boot time unless legacy mount behavior is needed for some ZFS file systems. For more information about mounting ZFS file systems, see Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.
Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Create a mount point for the file system to be mounted, if necessary.
# mkdir /mount-point |
There must be a mount point on the local system to mount a file system. A mount point is a directory to which the mounted file system is attached.
Edit the /etc/vfstab file and add an entry. Ensure that you do the following:
Separate each field with white space (a space or a tab).
Specify a dash (-) if a field has no contents.
Save the changes.
For detailed information about the /etc/vfstab field entries, see Table 18–3.
Because the root (/) file system is mounted read-only by the kernel during the boot process, only the remount option (and options that can be used in conjunction with remount) affect the root (/) entry in the /etc/vfstab file.
The following example shows how to mount the disk slice /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 as a UFS file system to the mount point /files1. The raw character device /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s7 is specified as the device to fsck. The fsck pass value of 2 means that the file system will be checked, but not sequentially.
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount #to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options # /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s7 /files1 ufs 2 yes - |
The following example shows how to mount the /export/man directory from the system pluto as an NFS file system on mount point /usr/man. Neither a device to fsck nor a fsck pass is specified because it's an NFS file system. In this example, mount options are ro (read-only) and soft.
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount #to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options pluto:/export/man - /usr/man nfs - yes ro,soft |
The following example shows how to mount the root (/) file system on a loopback mount point, /tmp/newroot. LOFS file systems must always be mounted after the file systems that are in the LOFS file system.
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount #to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options # / - /tmp/newroot lofs - yes - |