- HELP, DELETED /ETC/FSTAB
- Posted by Mark London on January 25th, 2004
Help! I was setting up a linux box on redhat, and accidently blew away a bunch
of files in /etc, including /etc/fstab. Do I have to start rebuilding from
scratch, or is there a way to recover /etc/fstab? Thanks!
- Posted by Tony Curtis on January 25th, 2004
Restore from your backups.
hth
t
- Posted by Keith Keller on January 25th, 2004
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On 2004-01-25, Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> wrote:
If you haven't rebooted yet, try the mount command and start
reconstructing your fstab from scratch. If you have rebooted, boot from
CD/floppy, mount your partitions, see what they are, and reconstruct it
that way.
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- Posted by Alan Connor on January 25th, 2004
On 25 JAN 2004 04:12:09 GMT, Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> wrote:
Run cfdisk to get the partition info and create a new one. They aren't that
hard.
Man fstab and mount......Find an example to guide you.
(from a Debian box):
$ less /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
<pass>
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0
0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0
0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto defaults,user,noauto 0
0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda9 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 /temp ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda10 /doc ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda11 /basic ext2 defaults 0 2
(watch the wrapped lines above :-)
AC
- Posted by Lew Pitcher on January 26th, 2004
Mark London wrote:
If your system is still running, you can rebuild your /etc/fstab by copying
/etc/mtab. You will have to add your swap definition and any currently unmounted
filesystems to the new /etc/fstab, but what's there will be a good start.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
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- Posted by Steve Holdoway on January 26th, 2004
On 25 JAN 2004 04:12:09 GMT, mrl@psfc.mit.edu (Mark London) wrote:
I know this isn't any help at all, but there used to be a switch for
mount that printed the mount table in /etc/fstab format. Could have
been quite useful at this point (:
Maybe it should migrate from system V over to linux rsn ???
Steve
- Posted by Garry Knight on January 26th, 2004
Steve Holdoway wrote:
'cat /etc/mtab'
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