sligthly OT: fstab can be evil..

[O. Sinclair]

just to help someone else avoid getting in the jam I did..

the computer (8.04.1 with all updates) ran an diskcheck on boot and 
prompted something re "line 7 in fstab wrong" but booted nicely.

So I went to System Settings, Advanced and "Disk and Filesystems". Noted 
that the "/" partion was not Enabled and "fixed" that.

On next boot I get about 20 lines of errors 
"etc/init.d/rc:317:sed:permission denied "/bin/sh"" .
Booting to a shell did not work either, nor an older kernel.

Booted with Knoppix and after much running around files found that my 
"enabling" had added an extra line for the root partition in fstab so 
there were now 2 lines. Deleted the "new" line and all was fine.

conclusion: if it aint broken don't fix it when it comes to fstab

Regards,
Sinclair