Re: Lost fstab file

[Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk>]

Bill Jones wrote:
>  
> Help please...
>
> I somehow managed to forget to restore my fstab file before shutting
> down my server. Now it won't boot (of course).
> Is there a way to recover a missing fstab file? I moved it to fstab.orig
> prior to the shutdown. I have RHEL 4.
> I tried linux rescue but it doesn't seem to work.

It should do. In what way does it not work?

Your root filesystem should be mounted under /mnt/sysimage, so the file 
you want to rename would be /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab.orig.


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