Maxtor One Touch III with Fedora Core

[Andy Green]

linux wrote:
> It was formated NTFS.
> I reformatted ext3.
> 
> Made an fstab entry -> /dev/sdc /home/me/REPOSITORY ext3 defaults 1 1
> 
> Now my machine does not boot properly.
> 
> It fails a filesystem check and I get the error "fsck.exts:: No such 
> file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdc1"
> 
> 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.

Yow that went south.

You need to unmount your normal filesystem and fsck it.  Use

mount

to find your normal filesystem mountpoint, it should be /mnt/sysimage. 
Then do, eg

umount /mount/sysimage
fsck /dev/sdXX

where sdXX is the drive and partition your main filesystem lives on.

-Andy