fstab renamed

dkalsaria · 01-01-2009, 03:21 AM

Hi Friends,

I have renamed fstab as a fstab.old in /etc folder. After system reboot is comes to shell prompt. How i can recover fstab from single user mode. I am using redhat Enterprise 5. Pls guide me.
Thanks

repo · 01-01-2009, 04:50 AM

You have to remount / rw, try mount -uw / from the command line prompt
you get when you are in single user mode, then mv /etc/fstab.old /etc/fstab

syg00 · 01-01-2009, 06:42 AM

Personally I'd do it from a liveCD - shortform "mount" only works if defined in fstab ...

custangro · 01-01-2009, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkalsaria

Hi Friends,

I have renamed fstab as a fstab.old in /etc folder. After system reboot is comes to shell prompt. How i can recover fstab from single user mode. I am using redhat Enterprise 5. Pls guide me.
Thanks

Boot into the recovery cd and chroot into your system...then recover your file.

Example:

Code:

sh-1.3# chroot /mnt/sysimage
sh-1.3# cp /etc/fstab.old /etc/fstab
sh-1.3# sync
sh-1.3# exit
sh-1.3# exit

-C