On Friday 20 January 2006 22:46, Joe G wrote:
I rebooted. I've included the output. Btw, I did go into fstsb and delete that line. I can put it back if you want.
The lsmod output looks OK now. The line in fstab is only needed to allow non-root users to mount the device, and to make it easier (less typing) to mount the device, as well as to specify other options (like mount read-only). Bottom line is we can get it working first, and then you can add that line back into fstab. So you know, /etc/mtab is like fstab, but it tracks *mounted* filesystems, where fstab holds configure info for filesystems. Also, *never* delete a line from a config file. A good practice is to first make a copy of the line you want to change, and comment it out. Then you make changes (change/delete) to the other line, while you still have a backup of the original line. In most linux config files, including fstab, any text that follows an # mark is a comment, and is skipped over. In pico ctrl+K will cut to clipboard, then crtl+U will paste the original back, and ctrl+U again will paste an extra copy of the line. Now then, `cat /proc/diskstats` to verify if we can now see sda4. You can also try to mount it with `mount /dev/sda4 /media/zip Mark