Dan wrote:
Hi
Im running FC4 on my PC - well, i was until i rebooted today.
On reboot i had a plethora of errors.
On booting in rescue mode it appears fstab-sync has wiped anything
*except* removable devices from /etc/fstab.
No root. No swap. No /proc. No /dev/pts. Nothing.
I am also using LVM.
Hence I cannot get into my system.
Now for my question. How can i rebuild my /etc/fstab without reinstalling?
I have had a lot of success with Fedora - have been running it on my PC
since FC1 without major problems, until now.
Cheers,
Dan
I've had to rebuild my /etc/fstab files a few times during the last 10
years or so... I've learned to take a snapshot of /etc on a fresh
install and every now and again, just in case.
In the mean time, you could try booting into rescue mode (saw something
about that a few days ago on this list) using either the ISO image from
the Fedora website, or you can get there with the first disk of the
distro's set. If you can get that far, write down the /etc/fstab file
that is (hopefully) generated when booting into rescue mode (I haven't
tried this as yet, although I may give it a shot just to see what we
wind up with). If that doesn't work, I'd try running fdisk -l to get a
list of the disks and partitions, and work from memory and poking around
(mount the partitions one at a time and examine them) to build a new
fstab. FWIW, here is what mine looks like:
~$ cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=<strange chars here> swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /slack ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /z ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
Two IDE disks and a CDRW as the master on hdc; your system will probably
be different (SCSI, RAID, anything like that?)
HTH
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