on Tue, Jul 02, 2002, Anthony Campbell (ac@acampbell.org.uk) wrote: > I made a change to /etc/fstab which resulted in booting problems; the > system eventually came back but root was now read-only. > > I therefore used a rescue disk to edit /etc/fstab back to what it used > to be, but some problem occurred with the new file. I deleted it, but I > can't create a new one; I keep getting I/O errors when I try. If I do ls > in /etc/ it says that fstab gives an I/O error. > > In other words, there seems to be an invisible /etc/fstab file which I > can't get rid of to replace it with a good one. Is there any way to do > this? What editor are you using? The minimal 'vi' that lives on /bin on an install system occasionally gets borked. 'ls -a' should show any hidden files. You can also try editing a new file, then moving it to /etc/fstab. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/
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