[SLUG] OOps fstab

[Paul Teasdale]

On Saturday 15 Apr 2006 19:15, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>
> I thought loading Knoppix allowed you to make such changes but the
> /etc/fstab it shows you is the virtual, read-only one it concocts
> itself.
>
Using Knoppix will allow you to recover your fstab but looking at /etc/fstab 
will not work because as you have discovered it relates to the Knoppix disk 
you have just booted. What you need to do is mount the partition of your hard 
drive that contains the fstab that you have "broken". For example:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/temp

and then edit the file:

/mnt/etc/fstab

because this will be the "broken" one. Please note that in the example I have 
assumed your hard disk is ext3 and your "broken" fstab resides on your !sy 
hard disk in partition 1. It also assumes that the directory /mnt/temp 
exists. You may need to adjust these.

When done just reboot and things should work again.

Regards,
Paul.
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