file system errors and empy fstab

[Ken Schutte]

Anyone have any suggestions on this?  or any idea of where to look for a 
solution?  Otherwise, I guess I have to just re-format and re-install... :-(


> Hello,
> 
> I'm not sure what happened, but last time I booted my system (FC3 on IBM x40 
> thinkpad), I get the following:
> 
> *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> *** when you leave the shell.
> *** Warning -- SELinux is active
> *** Disabling security enforcement for system recovery.
> *** Run 'setenforce 1' to reenable.
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue):
> 
> It also gave some other errors about not finding /dev/pts, etc.  When, I 
>  log in as root like it says above, I checked my /etc/fstab and it's 
> empty (only a comment, # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man 
> fstab-sync' for details).  I thought I could try to put some entries in 
> there, but, when logging in in this "repair" mode or in working from a 
> Knoppix CD, the filesystem is mounted as read-only.
> 
> I was able to copy out any important files using Knoppix, so I'm not too 
> worried about loosing data now, but I'd like to figure out what's going 
> on and fix it.  I also tried running '/sbin/fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda6' - 
> this gave me a warning about fixing my fstab file and then said:
> "/: clean, <N>/<N> files, <N>/<N> blocks"
> 
> Is my fstab the culprit?  Do I have to write it by hand?  If so, how do 
> I make it writable?
> 
> Any help is really appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> Ken
> 
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