Backup booting

[Chris Rees]

> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:08:16 -0600
> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> Subject: Backup booting
>
> Now fstab is from the backed up system and is:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/hda7
> UUID=16ccb569-10ba-43c2-856e-f2cce1307a29 /               ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/hda3
> # UUID=af67fcdb-daeb-4a06-8273-fce1ef201ad1 /media/hda3     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda5
> # UUID=58f8383b-eae4-410a-9f14-9db64006e9ef /media/hda5     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda6
> # UUID=3c7b4283-88ff-42e6-85cb-67c95fc9bf54 /media/hda6     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda7
> # UUID=16ccb569-10ba-43c2-856e-f2cce1307a29 /media/hda7     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda8
> # UUID=a9c1cb61-ddfd-44f6-88b0-6dc976daf9ca /media/hda8     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda9
> # UUID=dbb7ee8d-ca89-44f7-a169-8f88af9bb925 /media/hda9     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/sda1
> # UUID=984714d3-bcfd-434f-916c-d2b7386b4482 /media/sda1     ext3
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda1
> UUID=7915f630-518c-425b-9fea-0ef07e50d0f9 none            swap
> sw              0       0
> # /dev/hda2
> UUID=4d7c4159-d00c-4069-bfb6-f9a6e153c723 none            swap
> sw              0       0
> /dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
> /dev/hda9           /home       ext3     defaults       1    2
>
> As you can see I have blocked most of the mounts to /media just to make
> it simpler.

Yeah... did you happen to use pico? Your lines in fstab are broken, is
that the way the email sent or does your fstab really have newlines
halfway through the drive descriptions?

Apologies if you saw the light a long time ago wrt text editors, I
don't want to patronise.

Chris