When choosing to manually partition the hard-drive(s) during installation, the fstab file is incomplete before editing. I understand that it may be difficult to trace a user's manual partitioning, but some better documentation on how to setup the fstab file manually would be helpful (at least an example in the install guide).

I found an example in the archlinux forums, but it's hard to browse online forums before your system is up and running on the internet. :)