Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> So I mistyped noatime in /etc/fstab; wished there was a way to test this 
> first!
> 
> Anyway, since this is my ASUS Eee and my swap is on the SD card, by 
> pulling the SD card the boot halts and puts me into Repair Filesystem mode.
> 
> Thing is /etx fstab is readonly.  vi fstab won't let me save the file.
> 
I assume you have done the normal "write a ro file" command (:w!) and that 
failed as well?

> I really don't want to do a complete reinstall yet.  I want to buy a 8Gb 
> SD card first (and next time I am putting /usr on the SD card).  So how 
> can I edit this?
> 
> 


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