How does one clean a messy fstab ?

[thomas fisher]

On Sunday 13 April 2008 17:27:15 SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> Hello Ubuntu experts and users
> It sounds that my earlier intentions with my multi-OS setup seem to
> ambitious and
> somewhat too risky !?!
>
> Got some recommendations and warnings not to do from reliable sources
> and
> so I decided to step lower and more simple !! ;-)
>
> Currently I need your assistance / help how to clean my fstab best and
> easiest:
> Lucky, the system starts and runs and seems not to have any acute
> problems. ;-)
>
> But what is the correct and efficient sequence of tasks to bring the
> fstab and
> may be other system files back to a clean proper status ???
>
> Do I start and rely on date from "blkid" and then correct fstab ...
> ... or what else do I need to observe to get back successfully ?
>
> TIA for your very appreciated helping feedbacks.
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First it would help if you would post:
a) output of       cat /etc/fstab
b) output of       df
c) list of physical drives, the partitioning  and the filesystem of each
Hope this helps
Tom