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Re: [LUG] fstab access

 

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
>
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