newbie in trouble - recovering fstab

[Paul Howarth]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> well, i've gone and done it now. Somehow while I tried to find a way
> of moving my /home directory to a partition of it's own everything is
> f**ed up.
> 
> I was looking into moving /home because it'd run completely out of
> space on the ext3 part where everythingis (i hope!)
> 
> As part of that i must have typed something wrong because in my
> atempts to copy /home from the command line - i ended up copying /
> (everything) which naturally ran out of space and stopped everything
> working...
> 
> Somehow trying to edit in vi from the command line, instead of saving
> an edited fstab, supposed to mount the new partition, i managed to
> truncate it 0kb - it's empty. So now I can't get anything to start.
> 
> I can get the command line in rescue mode, or single user mode by
> editing the grub config. I notice also that fstab~ is still there -
> but i can't work out how to copy it to fstab.

You can't figure out how to do "cp fstab~ fstab"?

Paul.