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On Tuesday 19 September 2006 00:47, Paul Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 9:59 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
If you're doing a repair, why on earth would you want to be mucking about with the mount points?
Example: you've used a partition manager to move and reorder the disk partitions, so the mount points (which of course are reflected in /etc/fstab) have to be changed correspondingly since, e.g., the filesystem that used to be on /dev/hda6 has now moved to /dev/hda7.
You plan the device/partition scheme changes in advance. Then you: a. backup the existing fstab (i.e. 'cp fstab fstab-orig') for safekeeping b. edit fstab to match your plan c. boot the repair system to implement your changes d. boot normally, since fstab matches the new environment Carl