Different colors in FSTAB, any particular meaning to them?

[bonkers]

I am trying to add this line on the bottom of my primary OS drive to help reduce some of the writes to the SSD.

/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777  0  0

Strangly the first zero is black and the second the normal brown color, like all the rest of the numbers for <dump> and pass <pass> , this black zero corresponds to the <dump> part. If I add a third zero, it becomes brown, and I am left with one black, and 2 browns, here is a picture to show you guys what I mean.


In the picture I added a third zero to show what I mean by the color change.

[bonkers]

That does not really help me in anyway but thank you for the answer. What does the black color mean as opposed to blue in my fstab?

[SteveRiley]

Also, your entry is incorrect. It should be:

tmpfs  /tmp  tmpfs  noatime,mode=1777  0  0

The commened line with the items in angle brackets <> describes what goes in each column. Your entry is missing the first item, the file system name. And it has an extra 0 at the end. There are only two flags, not three.

Kate's coloring should have clued into this. If you take a look at the other lines, you'll see:

• black: filesystem name
• blue: mount point
• purple: filesystem type
• black bold: mount options
• brown: backup (dump) and filesystem check (pass) flags

Notice that in the line you entered, the colors don't line up right?