Greetings Anne ,
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 17 March 2006 01:51, Eric Beversluis wrote:
I'll give it a try. Why not a gui text editor like gedit? Remember we're
trying to make Linux usable by nongeeks. Someone tried to teach me vi
once--aaaarrgh!
I always use vi to edit config files . I don't know how to use vi . Only
just
a couple of commands ( insert , for insterting text , wq for Save and Exit
and q! for exit ) and that was all i needed .
I don't know why that was Kostas' recommendation.
Vi knows only plain text file ( for as far as i know ) so even by accident
i can't possibly save in another format , so i can't possibly damage the
file beyond recovery . Remember if fstab can't be parsed properly you
will possibly get a kernel panic , because the kernel will not be able to
access the root partition .
Of course it must be a text
editor, not a word processor, but I often use kwrite for such edits and never
had a problem.
Well sorry for answering so late . There is only one reason .
fstab is a plain text file . Most of the configuration files are also
plain text files .
Now , you may use even Write from OpenOffice if you wish BUT you have to
remember to save it as a PLAIN TEXT file . That's why you succeeded with
Kwrite , Kwrite didn't altered the format of the file so it was ok .
When you've done it, try
mount -a
in a root console. That should mount everything is fstab without rebooting.
Anne
Kind Regards,
Kostas
