/ goes missing from fstab

[Greg Gilmour]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:05:41PM -0400, David Hubbard wrote:
> Anyone ever see the entry for their root filesystem
> disappear from fstab?  The server still boot normally
> to single user, complained about no root filesystem,
> even though it was all there, and adding it back in
> fixed the issue.  Took me a while to figure out that
> was the issue though because the errors mad it sound
> more like a bad superblock.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave

I've only ever seen that happen when someone was using Gentoo and did an
emerge once.  Had to fix it by booting off another Linux distro,
mounting the filesystem, and fixing fstab by hand...

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