On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 01:41:50AM -0400, Bill Perkins wrote: > Thomas Taylor wrote: > >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 > > > > That's the way I'd go as well, unless you want to have at the source for > fstab-sync. But, from what I've seen, the *nix way of doing things is > keeping the tools simple and gluing them together with scripts ;-) > I am not sure what the original problem was but maybe the following two things are relevant: 1. fstab-sync only affect lines in the fstab that have "managed" in the options field. 2. fstab-sync has configuration files that control what it does to lines it manages. -- ======================================================================= Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
