[98932] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 5.2 upgrade & /etc/fstab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Wed Nov 11 08:12:34 1998
To: Patrick Bauer <bauerp@niagara.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: message-id <Pine.LNX.4.04.9811110414000.3552-100000@peachy.fruit>
of Wed, Nov 11 04:14:39 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:25:18 +1000
From: Tony Nugent <Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Wed Nov 11 1998 at 04:14, Patrick Bauer wrote:
> What i did... was to re-build /etc/fstab... using vi... i re-typed all the
> entries manually..
vi on redhat linux is vim. (Brilliant editor, I use it constantly).
With vim, it is almost trivial to replace all spaces with tabs in one hit
with the following command:
:retab!
Voila!
(Yes, the trailing `!' after the ":retab" is needed to make it work).
It happens to work very well with the /etc/fstab file, leaving no
"trailing" spaces after any of the tabs.
In fact, ex is also vim, so you can do this with a one-liner on the command
line to edit it "in situ" without even having the editor come up on the
tty! However, I would have to experiment with it a little bit to figure
out the exact command that would be needed...
> > > I've upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2. The most pressing problem is that only
> > > some of /etc/fstab is read.
> > > /proc is reported as not being found as are 2 partitions. The entries
> > > are there.
> >
> > 5.2 seems picky about spacing. These lines will work, if they are the first
> > non-comments in your file. Spacing counts. I think it's a bug in the
> > parsing.
> >
> > /dev/sda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >
> > > Does anyone have a fix. The only error messages are that they're not
> > > found in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. I know one other person had this
> > > same problem with an upgrade. Some of it is read just fine.
> > >
> > > Clean install is not a good option- this is on a server.
Too many people have mentioned this problem for this to be passed over as
not being a bad bug with RH5.2. However, this particular problem hasn't
hit me with the 5 installs I've done so far.
Cheers
Tony
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