On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:05:36PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:10:16PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I wanted to move /var to another partition since it kept on > > filling up, but I accidentally forgot to make its partition a > > Linux one and now Linux won't start. When I boot it, it > > asks me for my root password for maintenance or press > > But what exactly does it say BEFORE running this sulogin? (you can use > SHIFT+PGUP to see what was printed to the console before) > > > Crtl+D to continue booting. If I put in the password, I get a > > limited set of programs including no text editor so I can't > > edit /etc/fstab > > try mounting our /usr partition - some editor should be there...
On my system I have "ae" in /bin -- look for it on yours. :) Or, you could try to cat.... cat /etc/fstab echo "stuff here" > /tmp/tmp echo "more stuff" >> /tmp/tmp [as much as needed]> cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old cp /tmp/tmp /etc/fstab -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
