[ale] ext3 recovery

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On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 12:52, MCover wrote:
> Of course the veteran among you are going to laugh at me but my /etc/fstab file was edited and this line was added:"LABEL=/home /home       ext3    exec,dev,suid,rw,ursquota,grpquota  1   2"
> The /home was never mounted originally the only previous labels in the fstab were: LABEL=/ and LABEL=/boot. And guess what now my unit does not boot in RH 7.3.
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> I was trying to be smart and I did made a backup copy of /etc/fstab - but now that the unit does not boot the file system is read-only and ever root cannot edit the file. 
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> Unit specs: HP Omnibook6000 - dual boot with Windows XP and Grub for Linux. This is only a test unit for learning purposes.
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> I am not sure if I am going in the right direction but the silly me thought that if I restore-edit /etc/fstab to its original form the problem would go way. I really want to learn how to fix it instead of just rebuilding. 
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> Note: I have tried: linux single, linux emergency, linux rescue. I just want to be able to restore the file system, any help will be appreciated.
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