I suck

[NicelyMKV]

Since I can never leave anything working alone...I altered my swap partition. Now but I can not boot up. Using the live usb I can get to all my files and look at them, but I can not copy them over to my storage partition(where they should be in the 1st place). It keeps saying I do not have permission. I even tried reconfiguring my now wrong UUID of my swap partition to the right one with etc/fstb(<--- may be wrong but had it right) and it would not change it.

I have been searching for 2 days and can not figure it out. I do not mind reinstalling my OS at all but I really hate to lose my evolution and firefox settings. I normally back them up but made alot of changes recently without a current backup of each.

Thank you for the help,
Jason

[Leppie]

if you are booting with the livecd, i think you have read-only access to your ubuntu system. unmount the root partition with the umount command and then mount in read/write mode. you will then be able to modify and save your /etc/fstab.

[NicelyMKV]

Thank you Leppie. I think I forgot to mention I am still new to linux. I would need pretty detailed instructions. Sorry about that.

Thanks again,
Jason

[Leppie]

i'll try something.
firs of all, could you post the output of the following command:

$sudo blkid

NOTE: the leading $ sign merely represents your prompt, it's not part of a command (you will see this more often in forums).
NOTE2: you can use copy and paste with the terminal as well.

[danastasio]

Since I can never leave anything working alone

That doesn't mean that you suck, just that you should never EVER try Arch Linux. Or that you should become a programmer and should totally go for it.

to mount the filesystem as read-only, boot into your liveCD and in a terminal run

mount -u -o ro -f /

then, run

sudo nano /etc/fstab

to edit your /etc/fstab so that you can change your UUID to the correct input.

[NicelyMKV]

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="962A0AC82A0AA579" LABEL="PQSERVICE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="463001DB3001D33B" LABEL="ACER" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Ultimate Edition" UUID="8c58b746-167f-45e9-9bfc-99b238fbcb38" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="6BD916293D69B047" LABEL="Storage" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: UUID="338a3bb2-a21c-4fb5-a27e-1c10071c7f4e" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb: UUID="08D1-386F" TYPE="vfat"

[Leppie]

to unmount your actual system:

$sudo umount /dev/sda5

mount it in read/write mode:

$sudo mont -t ext4 /dev/sda5 /mnt

to open your fstab in an editor:

$gksudo gedit /mnt/etc/fstab

change the uuid of your swap, save the file and reboot.
let me know if it worked.

[NicelyMKV]

fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=8c58b746-167f-45e9-9bfc-99b238fbcb38 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=14c93fb0-a27c-455d-9c2f-21fce00b11fd none swap sw 0 0

That is the right UUID beside the swap but when I open Gparted and right click the swap file and click info it shows the wrong UUID.
My swap partition is sda7?

I can not find my Ubuntu partition now to open it and try to copy it. I am just going under places on the top right menu. It is not showing up now.

Thanks,
Jason

[NicelyMKV]

Thanks for the reply danastasio. I did what you said and this is what I got.

aufs / aufs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0


I am n ot sure where to change the UUID here?

[pastalavista]

I've found the easiest way to fix a borked Ubuntu setup is to do a full reinstall, in MANUAL mode and UNCHECK all the format boxes for the Ubuntu drive mountpoints. This will reinstall all the system files fresh, so you'll need to update everything again, but no customized files will be overwritten or erased...