/etc/fstab error

[Ahmed Mohamed]

Thanks for your help. Problem solved.

I used rescue disk, and the file /etc/fstab is now editable.

thanks!







On 4/15/07, Sean McGlynn <sean_mcglynn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This is all off of the top of my head, so I could be off somewhere,
> but....
>
> You say it's dropping you into "a repair mode"--perhaps using the
> installation media to start in its repair mode and then mounting root that
> way will allow you to edit the file.  Then, don't use the label and see if
> it works using /dev/hda6.  I've had problems with labels before that were
> basically unexplainable (at face value--I didn't bother researching too
> much).
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ahmed Mohamed <ajmoham at gmail.com>
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:55:04 AM
> Subject: /etc/fstab error
>
>
> 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
> but when I later rebooted the system it dropped to a repair mode. 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.
>
> any suggests?
>
> thank you
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