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I have tried to replace a failed HD (which was used only to hold data), and have failed..
I need to somehow edit the bad fstab, and some advice about what my fstb contents SHOULD have been..
I see that LABEL and also UUID and NAME?) are all now possibilities.
I have attempted to enter single user mode without success and decided - yes I need advice!
Comments appreciated
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Last edited by 1fallen; October 29th, 2024 at 08:49 PM.
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Here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
Not much more I can do since i don't see the fstab.
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I don't see how anyone can realistically tell you what your fstab 'should' be when you haven't posted any information on the drives/partitions you have nor the current fstab. If you know which partition it is (sdb1, sdc2, etc.) you can get the UUID for it with the blkid or lsblk command and put that in fstab. You might just need to change the UUID. There are different ways to do this but I expect reading through the link in post 3 would be a good starting point.
Why? Aren't you using the new drive for data? Do you have Ubuntu or another OS on another drive?I have attempted to enter single user mode without success and decided
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You will need administrator privileges to edit the fstab file. The way we do that has changed on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Open a terminal and type
Enter your user password in the dialog box that appears and away you go.Code:gnome-text-editor admin:/ /etc/fstab
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<--- Run xman to see that window.
Maybe if you posted your existing /etc/fstab file, someone would see the 1 character that's wrong? People usually get really close.
And for editing the fstab file, sudoedit is the command. It will use the editor you've setup with the EDITOR environment variable, so feel free to make that editor anything you like - gedit, kate, nano, geany, vim ... or any other THAT is installed on your computer.
If you'd like to look at examples, these forums have a number of people with their fstab, but yours will be unique, since your system is unique.
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