On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 00:54, Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2023-03-29 at 00:49 +0000, David wrote:
> > In that situation, field 4 has to be non-blank, which is when setting > > it to "defaults" becomes useful. > > > > Otherwise, putting "defaults" in field 4 achieves nothing, because > > defaults are defaults so there is no reason to specify them. > > Does that imply you'd simply skip fields 4 to 6 for swap entries? Yes, for many years using Debian stable, my swap lines in /etc/fstab look like this: <device> none swap