fstab-sync wipes out /etc/fstab

[Bill Perkins]

Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Friday 14 October 2005 22:11, Dan wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, October 15, 2005 12:37 pm, Bill Perkins wrote:
>>
>>>In the mean time, you could try booting into rescue mode (saw something
>>>about that a few days ago on this list) using either the ISO image from
>>>the Fedora website, or you can get there with the first disk of the
>>>distro's set. If you can get that far, write down the /etc/fstab file
>>>that is (hopefully) generated when booting into rescue mode (I haven't
>>>tried this as yet, although I may give it a shot just to see what we wind
>>>up with). If that doesn't work, I'd try running fdisk -l to get a list of
>>>the disks and partitions, and work from memory and poking around (mount
>>>the partitions one at a time and examine them) to build a new fstab.
>>>FWIW, here is what mine looks like:
>>
>>Hey Bill,
>>
>>I did boot into rescue mode again and managed to reconstruct my
>>/etc/fstab. After a few reboot attempts i think i have managed to rebuild
>>fstab to its former glory.
>>
>>Posting this from the formerly unbootable machine.
>>
>>BTW i do actually take regular backups of /etc, just not this machine. I
>>guess that will change now :)
>>
>>I wonder if it would be feasable to have fstab-sync take a backup of
>>/etc/fstab, or perform some sanity tests (ie there is a /, /proc, /sys
>>etc) before making changes? Any thoughts/comments?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Dan
> 
> 
> Hi Dan:
> 
> Intrigueing idea, but not directly applicable.  "fstab-sync" is an elf binary, 
> not a script so not easy to change.
> 
> But you COULD write a script to copy or rename the /etc/fstab file and then 
> call the "/usr/sbin/fstab-sync" program.  
> 
> Tom
> 

That's the way I'd go as well, unless you want to have at the source for 
fstab-sync. But, from what I've seen, the *nix way of doing things is 
keeping the tools simple and gluing them together with scripts ;-)

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