Re: edit fstab through rescuedisk?

In alt.os.linux, on Sun 23 April 2006 16:04, Henrootje
<HenroV@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I didi something very stupid, I edited the wrong things in my fstab
and now I can no longer boot.

:-(

Can I, using the recuedisk, correct my fstab again?

Yes, but your root partition will not be automatically mounted with a
rescue disk, so you will need to create a temporary mount point and
mount the partition there.

I know exactly
what needs to be dited but not how to reach it :(


Assuming that your root partition is on /dev/hda5, I would do the
following after logging in to the rescue system:

mkdir ./myroot

mount /dev/hda5 ./myroot

vim ./myroot/etc/fstab

You should not need to tell the rescue system what filesystem is on the
root partition, but if you do then add the -t option to the mount
statement. So for Reiserfs it would become

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 ./myroot

Or for ext3 it would become

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 ./myroot


If you prefer a different editor, and that is available on your recuse
system, then change the line

vim ./myroot/etc/fstab

To invoke your preferred editor.

HTH
HANDY
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