Re: fstab file

["Pete St. Onge" <pete@seul.org>]

Bud,

     Your best bet is to bring up a nice big xterm and fire up pico or Joe;
scroll though the file and remove all of the tabs (they make your cursor jump
farther than it should).

> This is from the KEdit editor, you see they are not aligned, used pico to
> align them and seemed to make no difference.
    I think you have some embeded tabs here, judging from the change in alignment.
Okay, here's an idea - fire up pico again and open the file; put your cursor just
before the backlash and hit enter. This should take care of lines 1, 2, 8 and 10.
Bring the '0 0' from lines 8 and 10 onto the previous line where they should be,
and delete the blank lines.

> 
>    /dev/hdc1               /                       ext2    defaults       1 2
>  / dev/hdc8               /usr                    ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/hdc7               /usr/local              ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/hdc6               /usr/src                ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/hdc9               /var/spool/lpd          ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/hdc5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda1               /mnt/C                  vfat    defaults,noauto, rw
> 0 0 /dev/sda                /mnt/fuji              vfat  block=2048,rw  0 0
> /dev/hdb1               /mnt/D                  vfat   defaults, noauto, rw
> 0 0 /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             ext2    noauto          0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro       0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

> Still experimenting Pete, if I just had a good card file like Windoze has to
> keep track of the books I read. Mostly mystery and I like to make comments
> about them etc. so I can dicker with others about them.
     Perhaps that should be added to the apps list we were talking about. I'll do it. :)

> The /mnt/fuji is an attempt to read the MO drive, I keep trying.
     MO drive?

     Hope this helps (I have to shut down now, unfortunately)

     Keep plugging and keep saving backups of your fstab file as you go (fstab1.backup,
fstab2.backup, etc...). I'll be back on tomorrow morning around 07:30 EDT or so to check in,
so please let me know how it goes.

     Cheers!

     Pete

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Pete St. Onge
pete@seul.org