/bckupdrv how big?

[Chris Aitken]

Tim Writer wrote:

>Chris Aitken <caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> writes:
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>>Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>>Tim Writer wrote:
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>>>>This change will not take affect until you reboot. But don't do that because
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>>>>the above sounds like there may be some confusion between what is your backup
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>>>>drive and what is /. Please e-mail your complete /etc/fstab (from beforeyou
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>>>>modified it),
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>>I still had the modified fstab when I rebooted this morning. I got a prompt
>>to enter root password or hit Ctrl-D. I entered the root password and vi
>>/etc/fstab. I modified the line...
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>>/dev/hdb1                 /bckupdrv               ext3    defaults        1 2
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>>back to the original...
>>LABEL=/                 /bckupdrv               ext3    defaults        1 2
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>>However the system won't let me save fstab. I get "can't open file for
>>writing" when I try to save with wq!
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>When you're in maintenance mode,
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I don't know what maintenance mode is but a quick google niplies it's 
the same as single user mode. I followed the instructions for that and 
it brings me to the same message:

***An error ocurred during the file system check.
***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
***when you leave the shell.
GIve root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

I'll give the root password and hope that this time it lets me save 
fstab (it didn't last time).

Chris

> Red Hat has not yet mounted the root file
>system read-only. You can fix it like this:
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>    # mount -n -o remount,rw /
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>The above changes will not fix your problem because at this point, you no
>longer have any file systems on /dev/hdb. We wiped out the partition table,
>remember? Simply comment out the /bckupdrv line (insert # at the beginning of
>the line) for now.
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