Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1579 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 05 July 2009 00:00:10 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx> [07-04-09 23:32]:
> > Hm. I seem to recall that you're using an older version of suse - and
> > I also seem to recall that there was a bug in an older version of
> > yast, where under certain circumstances it would clear out fstab, if
> > the fstab file had some small problem that the parser couldn't handle
> > (can't remember the details, this was a long time ago)
>
> Ah, old-timer's....  But I tend to wander.
> I developed a rather unique problem which I could not solve with SLED
> 10 (somewhat bastardized) and installed 11.2 which is current according
> to zypper dup.
>
> > So, did you recently use yast, round about the time when fstab went away?
>
> No, mountmanager was the problem, tested and confirmed.  It leaves
> fstab as a 0 length file  :^(.  Immediately removed mountmaster and
> gave bug report to author.  Will also file one in bugzilla.
>
> > I don't think there is a way - but you can save yourself some typing
> > by simply copy/pasting the disk IDs from /dev/disk/by-id/
>
> Yes, came to the same conclusion, just starting.
>
> tks,
Patrick,

You could also open the partitioner and go down the partitions adding in the 
fstab entries to each one you want.

Bob S

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