[wellylug] Re: e2fsck problems

Damon Lynch damon at dev-zone.org
Sun Feb 23 23:10:07 NZDT 2003


supermount is handy in situations like this!  It mounts automatically
for you.  Comes with Mandrake.  The only problem is that in a couple of
Mandrake versions it was not 100% reliable at doing this.  But on the
whole it's very handy.

Damon

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 22:37, teejay1203  wrote:
> Damon
> 
> Thanks for your help... I actually _forgot_ that in linux sometimes 
> you have to _mount_ a floppy before you can copy files to it.
> 
> Consequently, I was able to get the files, which are due for a board 
> meeting tomorrow night :)
> 
> Sorry to be a pain in the neck about it.. still learning all this 
> stuff...
> 
> Tim
> --- In wellylug at yahoogroups.com, Damon Lynch <damon at d...> wrote:
> > It's easy to find out about your partitions :-)  please paste a 
> copy of
> > the contents of /etc/fstab, if that is not too hard (can you boot 
> into a
> > GUI?).  Basically if you see a separate line for /home, you're set.
> > 
> > e.g. an excerpt from my one is:
> > 
> > /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> > 
> > this means /home is in it's own partition on the 1st hard drive.
> > 
> > If you don't see something like this, let us know. We'll advise 
> from
> > there.
> > 
> > Damon
> 
> 
> 
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