check if there is a .fstab.sw* file in etc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Haugsand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: fstab question


> * felipe leon
> > Hello group,
> >
> > I want to have some mount points for a flash and another harddrive
so
> > I can easily in gnome on the desktop mouse-right click go to disks
and
> > have my mount points there. What I do is that as root I modify the
> > /etc/fstab file including the mount points and so on. After  I save
> > the file everything works just fine! I can do what I want and it
works
> > fine, the problem comes whe I reboot the computer and I log back
> > in. The changes I made to /etc/fstab just dissapear, why?
> > What do I have to do to keep these changes there?
> > system: rh9
>
> Utterly strange!
>
> Some ideas:
>
> 1. Do you _really_ use the correct file?
> 2. Do you have the /etc mounted as a ram disk?
>
>
> Try e.g.:
>
> a. Edit another file in /etc save it and reboot.
> b. Open a terminal window and do 'cp /etc/fstab $HOME/fstab.out1'
>    Do the changes to /etc/fstab, save them and do 'cp /etc/fstab
>    $HOME/fstab.out2'.  Reboot and compare the three files.
>
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