Maxtor One Touch III with Fedora Core

[Tom Horsley]

> I am then prompted for pass word for repair, but I am unsure as to how 
> to proceed.  What do I do now.... I entered the root password, and tried 
> to edit /etc/fstab to remove the above mentioned entry, but /etc/fstab 
> is read only and i can't save the changes.

There is a remount command (I think, or maybe an option on mount) that
will let you remount root as read-write, or you could boot off the fedora CD
or DVD and type "linux rescue" and get to your root partition from rescue mode
to edit the file.