Re: [opensuse] lost fstab ??

On Sunday 05 July 2009 05:02:57 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I just discovered that my fstab is empty and I know not why, only that
*I* did not remove/edit it. The timestamp is two days ago...

Hm. I seem to recall that you're using an older version of suse - and I also
seem to recall that there was a bug in an older version of yast, where under
certain circumstances it would clear out fstab, if the fstab file had some
small problem that the parser couldn't handle (can't remember the details,
this was a long time ago)

So, did you recently use yast, round about the time when fstab went away?

Is there a way to regenerate fstab w/o editing it completely by hand?
I ask because I have five internal disks and two external and the
editing would be tedious and the disks are identified by id. Note that
"yast disk" entries all show the correct mountpoints.

I don't think there is a way - but you can save yourself some typing by simply
copy/pasting the disk IDs from /dev/disk/by-id/

Anders
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