[CentOS] How to change 'fstab' when you cannot boot the machine?
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or while it's in single user mode with the read only /; do a mount -o remount / to get the filesystem into read write, edit your fstab file and reboot. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle <slackmoehrle at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > So My Drobo finished formatting and I added an entry to fstab for it and > now I cannot boot the machine. I get an error about > > fsck.ext3: is a directory while trying to open /drobo > and then a mention of a valid super block > > I had mounted the Drobo as /drobo and in 'fstab' I copied the line for '/' > changing to ext3 where it was ext4. > > I have made a mistake > > I cannot fix it because trying to edit fstab results in a "read only file > system message" > > Can anyone help me learn how to recover? > > Jason > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.
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