From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 24/10/2020 16.18, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 2020-10-23 21:59, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 24/10/2020 03.07, bad sector wrote:   
   >>> On 2020-10-23 07:47, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> too late cause the first thing I did of course was write another one   
   >>   
   >> Pity.   
   >>   
   >> Well, make a backup of the file.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> but I do remember at times using Yast>Partitioner just to edit a   
   >>> Volume-Label to a partition   
   >>   
   >> Good.   
   >   
   > As in, that's when Yast or partitioner might have   
   > wrote an empty fstab, just a hunch. I certainly haven't   
   > emptied or saved an emty fstab in my life.   
      
   It never happened to me, and I use labels on all my partitions.   
   YaST does other things, like changing your tabs to spaces and other wise   
   wrecking a beautifully edited fstab, but empty it, never.   
      
   So to protect about changes in the formatting of fstab, I make a backup   
   copy before doing changes:   
      
   /etc/fstab   
   /etc/fstab.20201024   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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