fstab problems
Ed Kim
ed.kim at rhatbox.com
Wed May 31 19:23:51 UTC 2006
William Steibel wrote:
> Having problems with samba, I foolishly edited the fstab file. Of course
> fedora 5 will no longer boot. I have used knoppix and the fc5 rescue disk
> to get into the system and edit the fstab file back to the original. In
> each method I run into the same problem. I cannot edit the file because it
> is a read only file. All attempts to save the edited file fails.
> I am a linux novice,so excuse my stupidity. I appreciate the solution to
> this problem
>
> Bill Steibel
> bsteibel at amnh.org
>
My guess is that you didn't "su" when using knoppix. You're probably
not root when you tried to edit the files.
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Ed Kim, RHCE
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