broken fstab and missing mount point

[Andre Mangan]

Line 15 of your fstab file looks like this:

/dev/        /media/floppy0  auto  rw,user,noauto  0  0

Frode suggested that you put fd0 into the space after /dev/ beacause a value
was missing, so, yes, there is a fault there.

When you said that it still did not work, I suggested to comment out the
whole line by placing a # in front of the /dev/ - that is the beginning of
the line.

Perhaps you could again post your fstab file (in terminal type: cat
/etc/fstab).

The mount point determines how hard drives, optical drives, floppy drives
and USB drives are mounted and made accessible and that information is in
your fstab file.

Cheers,
Andre (without the w)



On 11/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thank you for persisting. Maybe I did not make it clear enough. All I
> wanna know is 'what is the contents of line 15' ? Is there a fault in
> there ? How do I uncover line 15 ?  I feel  if I report the contents of
> line 15 in the /etc/fstab to you guys, only then a solution for the
> problem can be found.
>
> Also I wanna know ' what does the 'mount point' do ? Is IT connected
> with the /etc/fstab problems ?
>
>
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:10 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote:
> > Sorry Tony, perhaps I did not explain fully.  What I suggested was to
> > put a # in front of line 15.
> > In a terminal type 'sudo nano /etc/fstab' and then place a # at the
> > beginning of the whole last line (line 15).
> > Then Control+X, then Y to confirm, then Enter to exit.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andre
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/08/07, Tony Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> >         Hi Ubuntunaires,
> >
> >         This hurts guys, i have to use Thunderbird on the _*Winxp*_
> >         side of the
> >         computer to send this message !
> >         So here goes again: first thanks to Andre and Frode sofar but
> >         I have
> >         very little progress because of my  newby
> >         status.
> >         Now--when doing the start up of Feisty in recovery mode 2
> >         things stand
> >         out: Warning bad format of line 15 of /etc/fstab.When I did a
> >         check with
> >         'sudo nano /etc/fstab#15' ,as suggested by Andre,  the
> >         response was "
> >         Gnu nano 2.0.2 " followed by heading "file /etc/fstab#15
> >         modified" and
> >         then a blank page.and also at the  end of the recovery mode :
> >         " mount
> >         point does not exist".
> >         Frode suggested to  make a new  "/home partition" , but sorry
> >         i have no
> >         idea how to do that. Thanks for any help to fix this.
> >
> >         Tony
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > andremangan at gmail.com
> --
> Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
>
>


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