Hosed fstab, won't boot how to edit?

[Robert Moskowitz]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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? 

Yes, that did not work. I am home now, and will just do a reinstall. I 
was planning one anyway as I figured out the 'best' way to distribute 
everything between a 4Gb SSD drive and a 4Gb SD drive. When I just had 
everything (/) on the 4Gb SSD drive as a ext3 partition, the install 
failed. Moving /var/cache over to the SD drive worked. But now after 
looking at things, I am going to put /usr on a 4Gb ext3 partition on the 
SD drive, a 1.5Gb swap and 2.5Gb / ext3 on the SSD drive. I think that 
is the best I can do until I get a 8Gb SD card, or figure out how to 
unsolder the SSD drive and install a larger one....