"John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Soemthing that just happened to me made me think that documenting a particular > recovery process would help many people: > > How to get your /etc/fstab file editted from a floppy boot when your > partitioning is set up to have a seperate /usr part: > > Go into maintenance shell, as the e2fsck fails due to it thinking from the > /etc/fstab that a partition is /dev/hda5 when it is /dev/hda6 (or some such > radically wrong number, part 5 should always be the extended part table).
[...] > Just a thought, but could flesh out the procedure if wanted for newbie to know > how to edit /etc/fstab from what a floppy boot drops to when an unrecoverable > bad superblock error is triggered by diskdrake assigning /dev/hda5 to first > extended part and not allowing for the extended part table(and then erroring > as it is created, but still offering to write the /etc/fstab, which I did let > it do last night at 1 AM). diskdrake defaults optional things like > /cookermirror to extended\logical type, but fails to set up an exclusion of > part 5 for the extended part table and writes a /dev/hda5 entry in /etc/fstab > for the new part if it is the first logical created on a physical disk-- > sheesh. Then it decides the extended part table has a bad superblock because > is trying to use it as a partition that can be read to and written to directly. i'm missing something. what is this "part 5 being special"?
