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
On Saturday, June 25, 2005 @ 2005 10:54 AM, Anders Johansson wrote: 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
Thanks for the info. I went into partitioner in YAST and this entry did not show up. The only place that partition was referenced was in fstab. There was entry in /dev for the partition at one time, but I had manually deleted it a day or two before (don't ask me why). What would happen if I were to delete an entry out of fstab for, say, my root partition. My system would not even boot at that point, isn't that right? This is a pretty critical table for SuSE Linux (maybe any Linux), isn't it (or not)? Is there a particular format for the entries in the table, or could they just be delimited by a single space and it still work? Looks like right now they are tab delimited. Greg Wallace