Hello all,


Well, I am having heaps of trouble with the editing of my fstab. I just want to make my hd rw, but I have done pretty much everthing, i think. I added rw to the fstab line pertaining to hd and my drive is readable and mountable, just can't write to it. I would post my fstab up here to be more helpful but I can't figure out how to copy and paste it, damnit.

As far as c & pasting, I've written fstab from nano to a .pw file for the writer to edit, however, when I open the file with writer, its just blank white space. Any ideas anybody?

Do you mean you can't write to it as root or as a normal user?
Have you added "user" to the fstab line?

What distribution are you using?

Is this the root partition or a secondary drive?

Which "writer" are you talking about, do you mean the OpenOffice Writer? And if so, then you must be in a graphical environment, and why not open the fstab file directly? OpenOffice Writer and pretty much any text editor should read it.

Hey,

I changed fstab so that any user has write permissions. The drive is formatted and I run off a live cd so nothings on the drive. I run DamnSmallLinux, which is why I use their "Writer" which will not read the fstab when I save it as a .pw or .txt. So if this helps any I'm open to anything, but I think its the fstab lines. I would just post my fstab but the writer is preventing this. Man, if only my comp was a bit newer, I'd be running nothing but knoppix. Oh well, just have to wait.

Why do you need to save the file as anything other than a unix textfile?

EDIT: Because many things read Unix textfiles, including Mozilla if you have to paste it from Windows.

Thanks for the info Berto.

Here is what my fstab looks like on boot:

/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0


I'm not exactly sure what would make it hda1 writeable. I tried placing "rw" behind users and also after exec with no luck on either. Any ideas are welcome here.

Ahah! It should be "user" instead of "users".

And I am also not seeing a root mount point, are you trying to use hda1 as your root drive? If so, then it needs no parameters other than "defaults" like your /proc and it should be mounted as / not /mnt/hd

Hope this helps.

Got it all straight now!

Thanks for all the help Berto.