lenny54linux; Hey hey

Progress is being made

We are all at some point on the learning curve - none knows all there is to know.
Now I will expose some of my ignorance.
As you have executed:
in root do : touch /etc/fstab
I am unsure what that results in, as "touch" creates a new file - did that command overwrite the /etc/fstab file that "was" ?
The tool here to modify a file is a text editor - of which there are many many. Which one depends on your desktop environment (nano is universal but maybe above your skills present;y to employ). You can edit stuff from gedit, mousepad - for the GUI - or whatever text editor you use and paste it into the file with "sudo" privileges.

I think next we need to see what is current for the /etc/fstab file.
show us
Code:
cat /etc/fstab
this ain't nothing but a thing