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

**Markus** · 03-12-2005, 11:51 PM

The fstab you posted looks like it's from suse. Anyway, you should be able to mount in knoppix with:
sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 -t reiserfs

**cheetahman** · 03-13-2005, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by Markus

The fstab you posted looks like it's from suse. Anyway, you should be able to mount in knoppix with:
sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 -t reiserfs

it is from suse and do you do that in shell

**Markus** · 03-13-2005, 03:27 PM

Yes, just open a konsole in kde, paste it in and hit enter. Then when you type mount it should be listed as mounted. You might as well do sudo su in the konsole to become root so you can edit the file with mcedit /mnt/hda7/path/to/filename . Ctrl-d gets you out of su.

**cheetahman** · 03-13-2005, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Markus

Yes, just open a konsole in kde, paste it in and hit enter. Then when you type mount it should be listed as mounted. You might as well do sudo su in the konsole to become root so you can edit the file with mcedit /mnt/hda7/path/to/filename . Ctrl-d gets you out of su.

I'll try it and post the results

**cheetahman** · 03-18-2005, 05:22 PM

I tried sudo su
then cd etc/fstab
then mcedit fstab
and I could edit it but couldn't save it and get the error

Save As
Cannot save file

**Markus** · 03-19-2005, 05:44 PM

Please post the output of mount when trying to write from knoppix like you just did.

**cheetahman** · 03-19-2005, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Markus

Please post the output of mount when trying to write from knoppix like you just did.

What do you mean?

**Markus** · 03-19-2005, 09:11 PM

What I mean is the output of the command "mount". When you try to save a file on a hard disk while running the LiveCD the hd needs to be mounted read-write. What I need to see is if the partition hda7 is indeed mounted writable, hence the question about mount's output.

Boot knoppix, open a console, type: sudo mount /mnt/hda7 -t reiserfs
Then type mount and post the output.

**cheetahman** · 03-21-2005, 02:27 AM

/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/scd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=406488k)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid705) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=705,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/hda5 type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda7 on /mnt/hda7 type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/hda2 type ntfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000)

**Markus** · 03-21-2005, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by cheetahman

/dev/hda7 on /mnt/hda7 type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

well, this line says it's mounted rw (writable) so I really don't know why you can't save any file on it. Just to test it try making a file with touch some_filename and see if it works. Make sure you edit the fstab on hda7 as root, as you now have only permission to write as root.