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,--[ On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:08:35PM +0530, asheesh varshneya wrote:
| I am using fedora core 6 (FC6).
| I did *chmod and chown (recursively) on /mnt* thinking that it will give my
| user 'asheesh' write permisisons to the /mnt folder
| but the icon of the files in /mnt changed and they became inaccessible.
| So I umounted all partitions , rebooted , deleted all files in /mnt and
| again mounted the partitions.
| Then i was able to access my hard disk partitions.
| But from then onwards whenever I plug my pendrive or my portable hard disk
| I get an error *'unable to open /etc/fstab'* and it does not get auto
| mounted but I am able to mount it manually.
| I even tried it after login in as root and even changing the permissions of
| /etc/fstab but nothing worked.
| 
| Can anybody help ?

It seems, SELinux contexts aren't properly set. Try executing following
command(s) to restore SELinux contexts.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] # /sbin/restorecon -Rv /etc /mnt /media

| 
| Regards
| 
| asheesh

HTH
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल                      http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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