Hi....I m posting my /etc/fstab....while fc4 is loading I get a message saying that line 7 in /etc/fstab is bad. Line 7 is the one which says LABEL==....I have no clue what this is for and how do I fix it. Can I just delete the line out of there.



# 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==[Ñ¢Ž‹ ˜vš
„] swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs rw,defaults,umask=0777 0 0



thanks for the help

angad

So which partition is your swap partition??? From the console or xterm session type something like 'fdisk -l' minus the single quotemarks to find out. That is the lower case letter 'L' in the command not the number one.

The swap partition line may read something like;

And everyone tried to tell me that fstab-sync was harmless...

Try upgrading your HAL package to a version which doesn't use fstab-sync.

i typed fdisk -l in the terminal as root, but all it says is bash: fdisk: command not found. what am i doing wrong

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#

thanks for the help

fdisk is located in the /sbin directory. Typically /sbin is not in a users path environment so if you used su then you would see this error. Using su - will include roots path. You can always use the entire path i.e:
/sbin/fdisk -l

just wanted to say to all who posted;

this forum helped me save my swap partition and re-establish order to a sluggish fedora core 4 box.

my /etc/fstab had ambiguous remarks beside the swap entry

i corrected it to point to my 500 mb swap and now all is well

thanks !

:P

We live in a Universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.

Sorry for the late reply

fdsik -l gives me

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 7178 57657253+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 7179 9728 20482875 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 7179 9662 19952698+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 9663 9727 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris

The fstab contains

# 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
fix this line---> LABEL==[\u0462 \uffffv\uffff\uffff] swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


how do i fix line 7
LABEL==[Ñ¢Ž‹ ˜vš
„] swap swap defaults 0 0

thanx for the help

Change it toNever could understand why RH bothered with labels - more trouble than it's worth.

thaks for the help on thaty... i have one more problem i am trying to solve. I have an Intel Pro Wireles Card and i installed all the ipw2200 and ieee drivers as instructed on other forums, but still the card is detected as ethernet and not wireless do you know how I could fix it.


Thanks again

Simply edit (as root) the /etc/modprobe.conf file and change the alias for the device.
Also as root edit and rename the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts file to reflect the name change of the device.

When done with both restart the service; service network restart