Lost fstab file

Bill Jones whjones at nortel.com
Fri Oct 5 16:20:26 UTC 2007


Hi Nigel.

It said there was no file system to mount. Then it always put me in a
read only shell.
It doesn't mount under /mnt/sysimage because it says there is no
filesystem available to mount. I can't copy the fstab.orig back to fstab
because of the read only shell problem.


Thanks,
Bill
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nigel Wade
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:15 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Lost fstab file

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.


-- 
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail :    nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
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