Re: fstab

From: Bret Hughes (bhughes_at_elevating.com)
Date: 08/13/03

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Date: 13 Aug 2003 01:30:36 -0500

    On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 00:53, Daniel Tan wrote:
    > with swap enable, editing fstab yield nothing again. editing and trying to
    > save the file, i get "fstab" E212: Can't open file for writing.
    >
    > still unable to remount it.

    what are you using to edit it?

    Can you save a file at all?

    echo "test text" > /etc/testfile

    what are the perms on /etc/fstab

    ls -l /etc/fstab

    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Bret Hughes" <bhughes@elevating.com>
    > To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
    > Cc: <danieltan@shopnsave.com.sg>
    > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:27 PM
    > Subject: Re: fstab
    >
    >
    > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 23:25, Daniel Tan wrote:
    > > i'm at (repair filesystem) # prompt..after entering root password
    > > / is mounted but i can't umount it at all...
    > >
    > > running mount -n / -o remount,rw
    > > came out mount: / not mounted already , or bad option
    > >
    > > running mount came out /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
    > > none on /proc type proc (rw)
    > > see there is rw in there but am not able to write anything on /, editing a
    > > file prompts swap not enabled but i can edit but not save the file.
    >
    > This would be easier for someone else to follow if you would not top
    > post.
    >
    > Well since there is no swap enabled lets enable some. I have never done
    > this without an fstab but the manpage for swapon seems to indicate that
    >
    > swapon /dev/whatever
    >
    > should work.
    >
    > so assumming that your swap partition is the same as root, try
    >
    > fdisk -l /dev/sda
    >
    > and see which partition is swap and use that in the above swapon
    > command.
    >
    > Bret
    >
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