> I am unable to mount/umount anything after messing > with my /etc/mtab last night (I had removed a floppy
You shouldn't touch /etc/mtab. It's somewhat of a "live" file. It's a real-time representation of what's currently mounted. The file you would normally edit is /etc/fstab. > Any idea how to reset this? Renaming /etc/mtab doesn't > seem to help! Neither does rebooting! (Of course, the box > won't shutdown cleanly since it can't umount anything, > although for some reason it does mount stuff on > boot-up.) I'm real surprised that rebooting doesn't fix it... Maybe try "mount -a". That will attempt to mount or re-mount devices spec'd in /etc/fstab and in the process, re-write your /etc/mtab file. Hall
