fstab problems
jludwig
wralphie at comcast.net
Wed May 31 22:15:01 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 2:53 pm, William Steibel wrote:
> Having problems with samba, I foolishly edited the fstab file. Of course
> fedora 5 will no longer boot. I have used knoppix and the fc5 rescue disk
> to get into the system and edit the fstab file back to the original. In
> each method I run into the same problem. I cannot edit the file because it
> is a read only file. All attempts to save the edited file fails.
> I am a linux novice,so excuse my stupidity. I appreciate the solution to
> this problem
>
> Bill Steibel
> bsteibel at amnh.org
Maybe this will help.
If you use Knoppix
1) Boot the system using Knoppix (rescue disk).
2) as root
A) fdisk -l ( list all partitions of all disks)
B) Enter the proper data (example below)
[root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116301 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 105 52888+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 106 12435 6214320 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 12436 116295 52345440 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 12436 115800 52095928+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 115801 116295 249448+ 82 Linux swap / Sola
Disk /dev/hdb: 8447 MB, 8447459328 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16368 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 16368 8249440+ 83 Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--->From my fstab
( Note also all the system stuff that does not have mount points! )
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /media auto ro,user,noauto 0 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3) Put all the proper hard drive info in as well as all non-mounting "file
systems"
4) Verify that the file has been written.
[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /media auto ro,user,noauto 0 0
J Ludwig
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