well, i've gone and done it now. Somehow while I tried to find a way of moving my /home directory to a partition of it's own everything is f**ed up.
I was looking into moving /home because it'd run completely out of space on the ext3 part where everythingis (i hope!)
As part of that i must have typed something wrong because in my atempts to copy /home from the command line - i ended up copying / (everything) which naturally ran out of space and stopped everything working...
Somehow trying to edit in vi from the command line, instead of saving an edited fstab, supposed to mount the new partition, i managed to truncate it 0kb - it's empty. So now I can't get anything to start.
I can get the command line in rescue mode, or single user mode by editing the grub config. I notice also that fstab~ is still there - but i can't work out how to copy it to fstab.
Heeellllp ...
Yours sincerely, A. Twerp Stupidville ( Duncan )
:-)
(luckily i never uninstalled XP - so I can ask for help...)
Sounds like you're having a rather active Monday morning, eh? no worries...
Boot your rescue CD, go to the command prompt and mount your disk. When the disk is mounted chroot with this command:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
now you'll want to cd to /mnt/sysimage/etc where your fstab~ file located. Once you're there issue this command to rename fstab~ to fstab:
mv fstab~ fstab
Or you could do a more safe copy of the file by using this command:
cp -vf fstab~ fstab
Let us know how you make out. If you can get your system back up there is an easy way to move partition such as /home to another disk. I don't remember if I posted that solution to this list or not, but if you'd like to know how I did it let me know and I'll post the information.
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