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|    Carlos E.R. to bad sector    |
|    Re: Empty fstab?    |
|    23 Oct 20 13:47:06    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 23/10/2020 05.25, bad sector wrote:       >       > I ran into a complex problem (discussed on alt.comp.hardware)       > and while TS-ing it came face-to-face with something I had       > never seen before, except in suse. It cought my eye because it       > was the SECOND time within in a few weeks. I have a Leap-15.2       > and a Tumbleweed installation (among others). Just as I was       > isolating the problem otherwise unrelated to any OS the Leap-15.2       > failed to boot, I mean totally failed. Looking into it from another       > booted partition I saw an fstab file that is completely EMPTY. I       > have no idea how this could happen but like I said it's happened       > TWICE now within a month. Seems like there might be a hole in       > some script dealing with fstabs, I certainly have never emptied an       > fstab file or saved one that's empty :)                     I don't remember having heard of anybody complaining of a similar       problem in the places I read.              The timestamps of the fstab file would aid you to correlate with the       journal or syslog and perhaps find out what caused this.                     --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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