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Gordon,
That's done the trick - excellent! Thanks very much. I'll remove the other fstab files (after backing them up) and see what happens, but they do seem to be duplicates, probably made when I was fannying .. I mean, exploring. Cheers. Jack. > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:02:58 +0100 > From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx > To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [LUG] fstab access > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Jack Oley wrote: > > > > > Hi all. Can anyone tell me how I can access the fstab file in the CLI > > and write to it in recovery mode? Currently, Ubuntu 11 won't start > > since I tried to permanently add the Windows OS folders by adding the > > UUID to the fstab file. Using the CLI in recovery mode, I can access > > the fstab file but only as read only, so I can't remove this mount > > addition, even though I'm accessing it as root. > > When you've logged in as root, type this: > > mount -oremount,rw / > > then > > cd /etc > nano fstab > > and edit it as required. I'd start by simply commenting out the line you > put in. > > > I also have an fstab.save and an fstab.save.1 file. They also have this > > additional mount instruction. Are these other 2 fstab files needed? > > I don't know of a mechanism whereby one fstab will read another, so > they're probably not needed. > > Gordon > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq |
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