[wellylug] File recovery after a crash.

[MDM Productions]

Xav Paice wrote:
> ----- "MDM Productions" <thefrasers at clear.net.nz> wrote:
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>> Whole fstab (cat /etc/fstab??) appears in an earlier post. Please
>> don't 
>> make me one-finger it all over....!
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> ah - I thought you had abridged it a little....
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>> I've got to drop it there and go to my son's school production now. 
>> Family first. Will be back for a wee bit more about 2030. Eek! Just
>> seen 
>> the output of /menu.lst. Lots more typing for John!
>> Thanks so far.
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> Ok - hang fire there. Thought you were copy/pasting it rather than typing...
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> Probably you would want to see if editing fstab and replacing
> UUID=3ac7970b-c2e8-4a94-80b0-c3dc41a6c80e /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none 
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> /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none
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> I'm guessing that /dev/hda6 is the dead partition and is also normally mounted on /home?
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Yes, it's hda6 /home that is causing the grief. How do I edit it?