and be careful! fstab requires a carraige return or blank line at the end of the file (i can't remember, someone refresh my memory...) and it can cause serious problems (or so i think) if this is left out. my last debian install was scrapped because of this...
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EUG-LUG:3471] Re: Permission denied Mark Bigler wrote: >On Friday 26 October 2001 14:30, Matthew Winther wrote: > >>I am trying to mount another hd in RH 7.1 And i am logged in as root. >>In Konsole typing /etc/fstab gives me the message permission denied. >>What am i doing wrong? >> > >/etc/fstab is a file so to display it you need to do something like: > > cat /etc/fstab > >or: > > less /etc/fstab > >/etc/fstab is usually world readable so you should be able to do that >even when you're not root. > > ...and then you might want to add an entry, using an editor like vi, pico, emacs, etc... 'emacs /etc/fstab' when you are root, for instance. If you're not familiar with the file format, try typing 'man fstab' and read on! ben
