/etc/fstab no such file or directory

[theplatypus]

Hey,
When I try to configure /etc/fstab it returns with
Bash: /etc/fstab:: no such file or directory.

Do I need to make a file or directory? To make a /etc/fstab directory would it look like this?

[RK]

/dev/fstab is an ASCII text file. It contains a list of all of the filesystems you want mounted, whether or not this should be done automatically, where to mount them (mount point), what to mount (block device), how to mount it (filesystem to use) and any options that should be used when mounting it.

Use 'touch /dev/fstab' to create it. Make sure it belongs to root, and it has the permissions u+rw go+r (that's 644). Then you can edit it.

[theplatypus]

[Iturbide]

Hi,

Yes, it's a simple ascii file. Here are the permissions.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1237 Sep 7 17:38 /etc/fstab

To give you an idea, this is what mine looks like:

/dev/hda6 /boot ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hdc5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda4 none swap sw
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win-c vfat uid=500,gid=500
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win-d vfat uid=500,gid=500
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
#rojo:/music /nfs/music nfs nfsvers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
#rojo:/home /nfs/home nfs nfsvers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). Adding the following
# line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will use almost no
# memory if not populated with files)

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

For starters, I think the simplest thing would be to look at what you've got in /etc/mtab. That's the file with info on what you've got mounted, and how:
ene@beppie rene $ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hdc5 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/.init.d tmpfs rw,mode=0644,size=1024k 0 0
/dev/hda6 /boot ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win-c vfat rw,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win-d vfat rw,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
automount(pid5642) /misc autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=5642,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
automount(pid5658) /net autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=5658,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
rojo:/var /net/var nfs rw,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,addr=192.168.150.1 0 0
rojo:/music /net/music nfs rw,nfsvers=2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,addr=192.168.150.1 0 0

You see the similarities? Don't bother with my automounts and nfs stuff. You can look into that later.

So once you're up and running, just become root, and do a:
cat /etc/mtab >/etc/fstab

and you should have a working copy.

[simcop2387]

you would change the permissions by first logging in as root and type this