can edit etc/fstab

Shane Murphy nickhal at bellsouth.net
Tue Jun 21 05:26:06 UTC 2005


Michael A. Peters wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:41 +1200, Jonathan Pickard wrote:
>  
>
>>>hi
>>>after a fresh install of FC4, everything was ok, except that when i am
>>>trying to edit fstab file, to make it mount my windows partitions
>>>automatically, the file doesn open at all, i tried to open it with
>>>test editor but no way,
>>>the file type for it is : unknown,
>>>is there anyway i can edit this file ?
>>>any help would be appreciated
>>>      
>>>
>>sudo vi /etc/fstab
>>or 
>>sudo emacs /etc/fstab 
>>    
>>
>
>Will not work with default sudo settings.
>  
>
try being root first? su -l




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