Guest JaseP Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 I'm getting some error messages related to failure to mount swap files, failure to mount additional file systems, and failure or ssh after swapping out some secondary hard drives that I no longer want on the system (I was using them to transfer files). I was wondering where I should look to edit my configuration files to make them not check for these filesystems that are now out of the system... Can anyone offer guidance??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 Well, obviously your swap space was on a disc you removed and Linux won't be able to do too much without swap space. The mounting of additional file systems shouldn't prevent you from starting up. So boot off your Mandrake cds and reconfigure your disc partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 Actually, my swap space is on the disk I boot from. What happened is that the disk I was pulling my old /home partition from also had a swap partition. I think that the error messages are being generated because the additional swap partition isn't there. When I run DiskDrake, it shows that the swap partition on this drive is mounted... I'm still booting up fine, it's just that the bootstrapping process is still reporting errors about this missing hard drive [hdb], which isn't there. It's getting the information that there is a missing set of partitions on this hdb from somewhere,... I was just wondering where and how to edit the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted November 23, 2002 Report Share Posted November 23, 2002 The file you want to edit is /etc/fstab. It is actually straight forward if you look at the file. If you list it here I'll give you a hand. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted November 27, 2002 Report Share Posted November 27, 2002 Thanks Glitz, I may be looking at it this Holiday (Thanksgiving,... USA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted November 28, 2002 Report Share Posted November 28, 2002 That worked, Glitz, thanks... And you're right, the file is pretty straight forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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