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Analyzing the contents of /etc/fstab
When your system boots, it looks at the 
/etc/fstab
 file to determine where the root 
filesystem is. In addition, the location of your 
swap
 area is read from this file and 
mounted at 
boot time as well. Your system will also read any other mount points 
listed in this file, one per line, and mount them. Basically, just about any kind of 
storage you can think of can be added to this file and automatically mounted. Even 
network shares from Windows servers can be added here. It won't judge you (unless 
you make a typo).
As an example, here are the contents of 
/etc/fstab
 on one of my machines:
Figure 9.8: Viewing the contents of the /etc/fstab file
When you install Ubuntu Server, the 
/etc/fstab
 file is created for you and populated 
with a line for each of the partitions the installer created during installation. On the 
server I used to grab the example 
fstab
 content, I have a single partition for the root 
filesystem, and you can also see where the swap file is mentioned.
Each partition is typically designated with a