On Saturday 25 June 2005 10:20, Greg Wallace wrote:
I recently encountered a situation where I had improperly uninstalled some software and left an unused logical volume entry in fstab (last line in the table). I had removed the /dev entry for it manually, not knowing there was a utility provided by this 3rd party software that would have cleanly removed it. I couldn't find any information about utilities for maintaining fstab, so I held my breath, pulled the file up under Kate, and deleted that last line. I was then able to successfully re-install this 3rd party software and my system seems to still be perfectly ok. The re-install of the software put the entry back in the file, created the /dev entry under it, etc. My question is, are there any programs that allow you to manage fstab (check entries to see if they are childless, delete entries, etc.)?
What does "childless" mean? fstab is a text file, and it can be manipulated with a text editor, as you noticed. I usually just edit it with vim In YaST you have the partitioner tool, which effectively is an fstab editor