Just installed Linux on my PC, but I can't find FSTAB?!
I'm a total newbie to Linux, and it's like I was trying to mount the floppy drive. And through many websites. I finally followed one.

According to the indications of a certain website.
I typed 'find / -type f -name fstab'

It states 'find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. /etc/fstab

Then I continued with 'cat /path_to_fstab/fstab'

It states 'No such file or directory'

Can anyone give me a clue on what had actually happened?
Thanks alot.

It's "/etc/fstab" (and that's actually what your find command reported, apart from that warning). You probably don't need to care about that warning here.

I'm sorry, I still don't get it.

What don't you get? find found the file in /etc (again, that's where it should be), so that's all you need to be concerned with.

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How about
# suassword
# mount /mnt/floppy ?????????

or
# locate fstab (# updatedb must be run if this is first tiem you used locate)

You have to start some where.

I wrote a little bit about the Linux file system. It doesn't go into too much detail, but it might give you an idea about the file system hierarchy. File System

I suggest asking more specific questions....

the file named "fstab" is normally found in the directory named "/etc". That's what find was telling you when it returned "/etc/fstab"

to read the file (from anywhere) type: "more /etc/fstab"
From the GUI, just go to /etc, find fstab and double-click.

perhaps you should read up on the linux filesystem hierarchy.....http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-...MCONFIGURATION

i can actually find it in the CLI, but in GUI, i cant find my fstab in /etc.

actually i noticed a problem, i've finally mounted the floppy thanks to everyone's help. but, there is this floppy disk which when i mount would state 'please specify filesystem type, does this mean that the diskette is not formatted?

alright, error found, something's wrong with the diskette. thanks.

Open the file manager and go up to the root level--often called "filesystem". You will see directories like /bin /home /boot /usr and a bunch more. One is /etc. double-click to open, and fstab will be there.