editing mtabForum: Other Help Topics Topic: editing mtab started by: Patrick Posted by Patrick on Sep. 15 2004,13:38
Hello Y'all,My mtab looks like this: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/sda1 /cdrom vfat ro 0 0 /dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0 /ramdisk /ramdisk tmpfs rw,size=499832k 0 0 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0 line 2 is wrong! sda1 (my usb stick) shouldn't mount in /cdrom and should really have rw-rights! I can't get the file corrected (with Scite), i have no rights to change it (save). What should i do? Posted by guest on Sep. 15 2004,13:49
DO NOT edit mtab.mtab is updated by each mount and umount command. line 2 is CORRECT. this means that you have a frugal install why do you think line 2 is a problem? Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 15 2004,17:05
If you want to change mount options, try editing /etc/fstab instead
Posted by Patrick on Sep. 15 2004,17:48
Hello yall,this is my fstab: /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 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=500 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,uid=1001,gid=500 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,uid=1001,gid=500 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,uid=1001,gid=500 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=500 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb8 /mnt/hdb8 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=1001,gid=500 0 0 ge I wanted to edit my mstab/fstab but found i couldn't (errror from Scite: could not save file /etc/fstab. I wanted to change fstab/mstab because: If i want to backup my configuration i get this error message: mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/sda1 busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /cdrom opt/ppp/ tar (child): /cdrom/backup.tar.gz: Cannot open: Read-only file system tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now opt/ppp/resolv/ opt/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl opt/ppp/peers/ opt/ppp/peers/wvdial-pipe opt/ppp/peers/wvdial opt/ppp/peers/provider opt/ppp/peers/dsl-provider opt/ppp/pap-secrets Anyone any ideas? Posted by roberts on Sep. 15 2004,18:15
If you run the latest version of DSL 0.8.1.1 and do the frugal_usb install you will have the pen drive mounted rw and will be able to backup to the pen drive single partition.With prior versions you can remount like this # mount /cdrom -o remount,rw Then manually do your backup like this tar -C / -T filetool.lst -czvf /cdrom/backup.tar.gz and restore like this tar -C / -zxvf /cdrom/backup.tar.gz |