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jychin 08-03-2004 07:44 AM
Accidentaly deleted fstab file
 
hi...
i know this sounds stupid but i accidentaly deleted the contents of the fstab file. Now i wont boot. it says something like file system corrupted. what can i do ?? any help would be apprecaited. thanks.

Demonbane 08-03-2004 08:12 AM
Use the rescue mode provided by your distro CD, then create another /etc/fstab.
That's why you shouldn't muck around using the root account.

pakage 05-10-2006 11:59 PM
I have done the same thing.. i backed up the fstab file but the backup too appears to be blank. My machine is still on and i dont plan on rebooting till ive got that fstab file all propper. How do you recreate it with the correct settings in there?

Cheers

AwesomeMachine 05-11-2006 12:06 AM
Distro CD
 
Use rescue mode on the distro CD1/DVD, as already stated.

pakage 05-11-2006 12:09 AM
ahk, cool.. sorry..
I thought that the rescue tool simply allowed you to boot with no fstab file and then from there you had to re create it some other way..
Cheers :)

Zmyrgel 05-11-2006 12:40 AM
You can always write your own fstab by hand. It's not hard.

Here's a sample for gentoo installation docs:
Code:
/dev/hda1  /boot    ext2    defaults,noatime    1 2
/dev/hda2  none      swap    sw                  0 0
/dev/hda3  /        ext3    noatime              0 1

none        /proc    proc    defaults            0 0
none        /dev/shm  tmpfs  nodev,nosuid,noexec  0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0    /mnt/cdrom    auto      noauto,user    0 0
Just modify the above to suit your system and that's it :)

syg00 05-11-2006 01:34 AM
If I still had an active machine, I'd cat /etc/mtab to fstab. Will be missing some things like CD, floppy, mount options ...
Should be enough to get you up though.

Then play all you like with recovery options.


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