Have installed Mepis on friends machine.

1) It's a dual boot with WinXP, and so in fstab are entries for window$ C and D partitions which are mounted to /mnt/hda1 and /mnt/hda5.
Tried changing them to be mounted to /mnt/win_c and mnt/win_d - created directories and changed fstab accordingly.
But on reboot the fstab file is rewritten and it's hda1 and hda5 again.

How can I keep my fstab file?

2) What will happen if one inserts a regular Debian source at the top of Mepis sources.list file? Will it break the system? will it become a regular debian?

Thanks.

it could as mepis isnt just debian and draws upon different resources

About the fstab... two possibilities:

1. Mepis has another file which it copies over /etc/fstab at boot
2. Mepis uses supermount, which creates the fstab at boot

I fought long (and lost) with Mandrake and supermount. Couldn't make any changes to fstab without the Mandrake Control Center.

hi there..

i am also facing the same problem... i am using Mepis 3.3.1-1... i noticed that on booting there's an 'updating fstab' script or something.... there has to be a way to turn that off... dunno how... maybe somebody out there does?? maybe find the script and comment it out?? or if not that ... at least automount...

hope someone has a solution..

take care

This was some time ago...

Read carefully the remarks (with hash sign) in fstab. Beyond a certain point in that file, anything you add gets overwritten - so add your entries before that point.

Hope I remembered it right...

Seems yotamk is correct - I've seen similar posts elsewhere. Seems they have a static and dynamic section.
Put your changes in the static section.

Is this a Debian thing ???. I noticed Ubuntu have a similar structure in menu.lst for grub.
Put your changes in the correct place or they get lost/ignored.

Not something I expected.

Huh?

/boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab are totally different files.

Ubuntu's fstab doesn't have static and dynamic sections, and the menu.lst just has a lot of stuff commented out with ##

This must be a Mepis thing.

Debian certainly doesn't overwrite fstab on startup. (or any other config files I've noticed, for that matter)