/ goes missing from fstab

Jason Harley jharley at oanda.com
Mon May 1 16:33:35 CDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 16:23 -0500, Greg Gilmour wrote:
> 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... 

In defence of portage and Gentoo (which wouldn't do something like that
on it's own), the person probably did a careless 'etc-update' (after the
baselayout package was updated) without checking what they were
merging... :)

./JRH



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