On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 08:41:53AM -0400, pking123@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > At what point are you editing this file, what are you doing to it, and > > what do you do when you're done? > Well, at one point I was editing the file in the console. After > rebooting and finding out the changes didn't stay I edited it again. But it's important *at what point* you do it -- if you do it before the installer writes out the partition table, I wouldn't be surprised if it were overwritten. It's also simply possible that you didn't sync the filesystem before rebooting.... > This time, however, it was during a normal Linux session with a fully > installed system. After rebooting once more, I still got the same > partitions, with none of my changes recognised. Of course. > Another poster in this thread mentioned that fstab was modified to > help Fedora to distinguish between "managed" and "unmanaged" > partitions. Apparently, I can't edit the managed partitions. Maybe I > was trying to edit a line that had a managed partition. man fstab-sync. I don't think /home would be marked as managed. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
