fstab

[frozenrage]

ok, i am continously receiving an error

"line 11 in /etc/fstab is bad"

i have no idea about anything in the linux system (its a fair bit more "complex" to understand than windows but hey, i'll get it one day)

anyway, i opened the offendling file with vi and the offending line is
"LABEL=^[Eß%'5K¡x <9a>TQÅ swap swap defaults 0 0"

sooo, would anyone be able to help me out?

(on another note, is it possible to force an unmount of a cd?)

[caphrim007]

Yeah, well it sure doesnt look right to me. It's the line for your swap space, so to fix the error, you'll want to find out which device holds your swap space. For example, mine looks like this

/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0

The quickest way I can think of to find out which device is partitioned as swap, is to open a command line and type
fdisk -l

Look for the line that has "Linux swap" for it's System column. Then make your invalid line above look like the line I've got. Just replace my /dev/hdb1 with whatever your partition is.

See if that doesnt help

Tim

[homey]

That is bad for sure.
My swap partition is /dev/hdb3 and looks like this.....

LABEL=SWAP-hdb3         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

Change yours to whatever partition the swap is on. You can find that by running the command: ( as root user ) fdisk -l and look for the one with a type of 82
For my box, that looks like this .....

/dev/hdb3            9651        9729      634567+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

[frozenrage]

wellll, i think that worked. i kinda thought it might be something to do with the swap file but i thought i better check first. thanks guys. btw, for some reason fdisk doesnt work...weird i had to use qtparted to check. which btw came up with a couple of error saying corrupt filesystem (guess it thought the fstab was bad to eh?) anyway, i edited fstab with vi (was that how i should have done it?) and alls good now , and qtparted aint complaining

again, thanks for the help.

[gavinw6662]

Originally Posted by frozenrage

wellll, i think that worked. i kinda thought it might be something to do with the swap file but i thought i better check first. thanks guys. btw, for some reason fdisk doesnt work...weird i had to use qtparted to check. which btw came up with a couple of error saying corrupt filesystem (guess it thought the fstab was bad to eh?) anyway, i edited fstab with vi (was that how i should have done it?) and alls good now , and qtparted aint complaining

again, thanks for the help.

fdisk is in /sbin/fdisk, if you ran it a regular user (even with sudo rights) it might have said no command as the absolute path is what you needed there (if /sbin/ isn't in your path -- exho $PATH)

[frozenrage]

hmm, thanks. is it possible to add /sbin/ to the local path variable?

[mencargo]

I have the same problem, I already checked and my swap partition is at /dev/hdb2,
so should I edit fstab like this:
1) LABEL=/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
2) /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
3) LABEL=SWAP-hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
I just want to know who it is supossed to be...

[frozenrage]

i just did a google search. this is a bug in anaconda in FC4 that has been reported. seems a lot of people have this problem .

anyway, yeah, i'm prettyt sure you should just edit it like that. also remember to turn it on with "/sbin/swapon /dev/hdb2"

then to make sure its working do "cat /proc/swaps"

anyway, thats how i did it and its working for me.

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by mencargo

I have the same problem, I already checked and my swap partition is at /dev/hdb2,
so should I edit fstab like this:
1) LABEL=/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
2) /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
3) LABEL=SWAP-hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
I just want to know who it is supossed to be...

The answer is
2) /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0

[mencargo]

Thank you tomcat, I'll try that.