Problem when moving New Fstab to the Old Fstab to fix Suse

**cheetahman** · 03-08-2005, 02:33 AM

Hello I have problems moving my edited fstab to overwrite the original fstab and i get the error

bash:/dev/null:Permission denied
knoppix:/#

while running the command
su
chroot /mnt/hda7/

I have also made my partition write but I get the errors

Access denied couldn't write to /mnt/hda7/eetc/fstab

Access denined to /mnt/hda7/eetc/fstab

**eon** · 03-08-2005, 03:32 PM

Is the filesystem you're trying to edit mounted?

You may need to mount it, and then try your editing.

**cheetahman** · 03-08-2005, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by eon

Is the filesystem you're trying to edit mounted?

You may need to mount it, and then try your editing.

Yes its mounted

**Markus** · 03-08-2005, 08:14 PM

Post the output of mount
Also you have one e too many in: Access denined to /mnt/hda7/eetc/fstab
OTOH since denined is also misspelled it's a typo instead of copy paste?

**cheetahman** · 03-08-2005, 08:18 PM

how do you do mount

**Markus** · 03-08-2005, 08:35 PM

Open a console, type mount and post the line for hda7
man mount gives you the manual for mount, quit by pressing q

**cheetahman** · 03-08-2005, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by Markus

Open a console, type mount and post the line for hda7
man mount gives you the manual for mount, quit by pressing q

In Knoppix or Suse?

**Markus** · 03-08-2005, 09:33 PM

In knoppix. That's after all what you're mounting if you boot knoppix. You can post the line from suse as well, just say which is which.

**Markus** · 03-08-2005, 09:49 PM

Well, it's night in Finland and I need some sleep.
When you type sudo mount -a all partitions should be mounted writable.
Check with mount and you should see a line like this: /dev/hda6 on /mnt/hda6 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,grpid)
Yours will probably be different, IIRC suse uses reiserfs so you can also mount with:
sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 -t reiserfs -o remount,rw (if it's not already mounted you can skip the remount part)

**cheetahman** · 03-12-2005, 10:36 PM

Also here is my fstab

/dev/hda7 / reiserfs rw,acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda2 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mount/dev/hda5/mnt/1GB_native reiserfs auto,acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb-storage-Y3KQ3YTE:0:0:0p1 ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2