On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:54:54AM -0400, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote:
> I did something stupid to both fstab and mtab files.
> I rebooted and now my / partition (/dev/hdc8 won't
> mount, due to fstab says it is ext2, when it is actually
> reiserfs. The partition is mounted as read-only when I
> do a linux single boot from floppy.
>
> I know this is a dumb question for this forum, but then
> again look at what I did!
> How do I mount (remount) /dev/hdc8 so I can edit fstab
> and mtab to change back to reiserfs ?
You should never, ever, edit /etc/mtab. That is entirely mountd's
sandbox. Leave it alone.
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