Maxtor One Touch III with Fedora Core

[John Austin]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:41 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Suspect the fstab entry should not be /dev/scd but /dev/scd1

John