Screwed up configuring fstab. How can I rewrite it.

kurtwisener

Basically I just finished my first stage3 install. I forgot to set default options on my root partition in my fstab. I can raise nano from the bash shell maintenance optionbut it will not let me write to the drive how do I do that?
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RiBBiT · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 215 Location: Sweden

You can boot with your live-cd, mount the root partition and edit fstab from there.
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kurtwisener · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:41 am Post subject:

Ok, I am sorry to be so dense about this, but I just tried and it wouldn't write. If you could throw up an example of exactly how to go about that I would really appreciate it. Sorry, I usually don't have to deal with rescues or livecds and I have never tried to mount from a livecd before. I am sure this will be an "oh yeah, dammit I should've thought of that" issue, but I seem to be having a really hard time here. Thank you again. To clarify, if you could provide a code example of how I should mount the root directory from the livecd in rw, I could take care of this and patch a very significant hole in my linux education.
-Kurt
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

Here are the steps you do:
1) boot your livecd.

2) whichever partition you have as your root partition mount it as /mnt/gentoo

3) enter this command "nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab"

4) save the edited file, do "umount /mnt/gentoo" , and reboot

kurtwisener · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:20 am Post subject:

Thanks man that did it. I apreciate that you saw fit to navigate that particular sea of dumb. Have a great night.
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