Bonjour, As I run short of place on my /home partition, I decided to format a new partition on my HD (some place were left) and call it home2 after creating it with fdisk. I run mke2fs -j -L home2 /dev/hdax then added this line in fstab: LABEL=/home2 /home2 ext3 defaults 1 2 Then I rebooted the machine.... and, as there was a mistake in the fstab, I was dropped to a repair-partition prompt because fsck.ext3 didn't know what to do with LABEL "/home2".... I thought that there were no problem: I just type the root password and tried to comment the bad line in the fstab... Impossible: "the file is write protected" was the only answer I got from vi... I was root, the fstab file has write permission for root, but it was impossible to modify this file.... WHY? Thank you. PS. I recovered with reformating the partition with the right syntax. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris 5 - Paris http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
