On Friday 14 October 2005 22:11, Dan wrote: > On Sat, October 15, 2005 12:37 pm, Bill Perkins wrote: > > 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: > > Hey Bill, > > I did boot into rescue mode again and managed to reconstruct my > /etc/fstab. After a few reboot attempts i think i have managed to rebuild > fstab to its former glory. > > Posting this from the formerly unbootable machine. > > BTW i do actually take regular backups of /etc, just not this machine. I > guess that will change now :) > > I wonder if it would be feasable to have fstab-sync take a backup of > /etc/fstab, or perform some sanity tests (ie there is a /, /proc, /sys > etc) before making changes? Any thoughts/comments? > > Cheers, > > Dan Hi Dan: Intrigueing idea, but not directly applicable. "fstab-sync" is an elf binary, not a script so not easy to change. But you COULD write a script to copy or rename the /etc/fstab file and then call the "/usr/sbin/fstab-sync" program. Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,962 US soldiers dead and counting
