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Re: Filesystem Configurator Eats /etc/fstab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Armour)
Fri Nov 1 16:00:04 1996
From: "Mike Armour" <kurupt@ihug.co.nz>
To: "Kyle Ferrio" <kbf@phy.duke.edu>, <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 09:58:26 +1300
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: From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
: To: redhat-list@redhat.com
: Subject: Filesystem Configurator Eats /etc/fstab
: Date: Saturday, November 02, 1996 7:35 AM
:
: I know I reported this once before, but at the time I had a flakey
: disk and couldn;t be sure of the culprit. Now, with a new disk, I
: have confirmed that the fs configurator is eating fstab.
:
: For instance, I tried adding /dev/hdc as iso9660 at /mnt/cdrom and
options
: user,ro. The configurator pukes on this, apparently confused by what it
: thinks is field misalignment between what I typed and what it expected.
:
: This *might* not happen if only one option is given; I haven't tried.
:
: Although the GUI gives no indication, fstab is now zero bytes long!
:
: Fortunately, the configurator created /etc/fstab.bak, but if you were to
: run configurator again, you would lose the original altogether if you
: agreed to overwrite the backup. That prompt is good design, at least.
:
: Is anyone else seeing anything like this when specifying two or more
: comma-delimited options? This has happened to be several times; based on
: this experience, I'd advise against using this tool altogether.
:
I had the same prob, i had to mv fstab.bak --> fstab and edit it
manually... shame..it all looked so nice, çept like you said, all the
fields are slighty out of alignment.. :(
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