[ale] ext3 recovery

[Jim Philips]

I had to use the latest version of Tom's just yesterday to mount my ext3 
partition and it worked okay. Some earlier versiona had trouble.

On Friday 21 June 2002 01:13 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> I don't believe Tom's r/b will mount ext3, that's why I posed the
> question in my previous posting if all the filesystems were ext3.
>
> cfowler wrote:
> > Download toms root and boot or Linux BBC ISO CD
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Unit specs: HP Omnibook6000 - dual boot with Windows XP and Grub for
> >> Linux. This is only a test unit for learning purposes.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>M
> >>
> >>
> >>
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