/etc/fstab error

[Michael Schwendt]

On 15/04/07, Ahmed Mohamed wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using fedora 6.
> I have edited file /etc/fstab file by adding to the following line:
>
> LABEL=/download    /download        ext3         defaults            1   2
>
> I have succeeded mounting it on /dev/hda6 and accessed files on this
> partition

Above you use a label, here you refer to a device. Is /dev/hda6 really
labelled /download?

> but when I later rebooted the system it dropped to a repair mode.

What did it say about the reason to do that?

> As a root I have
> tried to restore the file (/etc/fstab) back to its original state but the it
> is always read-only
> mode. I have tried to chmod it (a=rw), I have checked the file attrributes
> using chattr /etc/fstab,I have saved it with :wq! . Nothing worked.

Pay attention to whether the root partition was mounted read-only and
whether you need to remount it first.