Unreadable Characters in FC4 fstab

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Fri Jun 17 04:22:54 UTC 2005


Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb Seth Art um 6:17:

> Below is a copy of my fstab.  On boot i get a message complaining that
> there is an error on line 8 of my fstab.   Has anyone else seen
> something like this?   Besides the error on bootup everything works
> fine.  Can i take line 8 out and change like 9 to:
> /dev/swap            /swap         swap defaults 0 0      
> 
> I wanted to run it by the list before i messed around with fstab.  
> Does anyone know why this happened.  As you can see i mounted an NTFS
> drive (line 10) but if i remember correctly the unreadable characters
> (in both gedit and vi) appeared even the first time i opened the file.

> Seth

> 1  # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

> 8   LABEL=\uffff^C^C^E|
> 9   ^U\uffff\uffffp\uffff\uffffp   swap                    swap   
> defaults        0 0

It is an anaconda bug. It was reported by other people before:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159087

Alexander


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