fstab warning on boot
 

Hi All,
Mandrake performing well, but I am having problems
mounting my Windows partition on hda1.
During the boot screens I get a line:
'Mounting local file systems (mntent)
No final new line at end of /etc/fstab'

My fstab reads:
/dev/hdb1 /ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm/tmpfs defaults 0 0
/mnt/cdrom/mnt/supermount . . . . . .etc
/mnt/floppy/mnt/floppy/supermount . . . . etc
/mnt/zip/mnt/zip/supermount . . . . . . .etc (lines too long to put here)
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/etc/fstab^M/etc/fstab^Mh^[heqqqq^Mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq^M

I am sure that I could remove this last line ( the ^, the h, and the q's
are in the blue colour of vi) but what should the last line look
like? Can anyone tell me please?

Roger Leale

Your fstab looks OK, except for the last line. Try removing the last line, and then leaving a line-space at the bottom aswell. I seem to remember the the fstab needs a blank line at the end, for some obscure reason or another.

Adding a line like /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 (assuming you're running a windows using the FAT filesystem) maybe mounts the windows partition in /mnt/windows.
Note that I'm not sure the defaults digits are correct,since I don't have the hda1 partition mounted myself... My hdb1 partition has the digits 1 0 though,so logically hda1 ought to be 0 0,right? :D

yes for a non-linux native drive, always 0 0