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madhattr

Member

Registered: 2004-05-12

Posts: 39

fstab messed up

:oops: 
i messed up my fstab or something and now my root filesystem isnt  mounting my root partition this is my fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>     <type>    <options>              <dump> <pass>

none                   /proc     proc      defaults               0      0
none                   /dev/pts  devpts    defaults               0      0
none                   /dev/shm  tmpfs     defaults               0      0
tmpfs                  /tmp      tmpfs     size=2G,nr_inodes=10k  0      0
none                   /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults            0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
/dev/floppy/0          /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto,unhide     0      0

/dev/discs/disc0/part3 /ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

when i start up my netowork now fails as does alsa x will not start a bunch fo things are failing i think this is because its not mouting the root partition, i have no idea what i have done here, my perfect system is compleatly messed up i cannot affort to reinstall i have too much unsaved data.

at bot it says mounting root read-only failed then other things fail and say read-only filesystem

if anyone know what my problem might be your help woud be great thanks

Mith

Member

From: out there

Registered: 2004-10-05

Posts: 163

Re: fstab messed up

:oops: 
i messed up my fstab or something and now my root filesystem isnt  mounting my root partition this is my fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>     <type>    <options>              <dump> <pass>

none                   /proc     proc      defaults               0      0
none                   /dev/pts  devpts    defaults               0      0
none                   /dev/shm  tmpfs     defaults               0      0
tmpfs                  /tmp      tmpfs     size=2G,nr_inodes=10k  0      0
none                   /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults            0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
/dev/floppy/0          /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto,unhide     0      0

/dev/discs/disc0/part3 /ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

you messed up the " / " line if I see that correctly. change it to the following and it should be working again.

/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1

you see the difference?
.Mith

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 1,797

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Re: fstab messed up

If you're the guy I helped last night, I also made an error in that file, the /dev/discs/disc1 of /boot should be /dev/discs/disc0.

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madhattr

Member

Registered: 2004-05-12

Posts: 39

Re: fstab messed up

yes xentac i was the guy you helped last night THANX AGAIN SO MUCH !!!
everything seemed to pop rigth back up nvidia splash and everything!
Now i know if i want to all i need to do again is edit my fstab to ruin my system