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|    Carlos E.R. to bad sector    |
|    Re: Empty fstab?    |
|    24 Oct 20 21:19:08    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 24/10/2020 21.07, bad sector wrote:       > On 2020-10-24 13:42, Carlos E.R. wrote:       >> On 24/10/2020 16.18, bad sector wrote:       >       >>> 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.       >       > How about if a label is the ONLY thing you change?              Sure, no problem.       But nowdays I use gparted because it does the job faster, and doesn't       edit fstab.              > I mean something did it TWICE and it wasn't me       >       >> So to protect about changes in the formatting of fstab, I make a       >> backup copy before doing changes:       >>       >> /etc/fstab       >>       >> /etc/fstab.20201024       >       > lucky you, I have to make'em after the chages :)              I don't see why.       Make a copy, start yast, check.                     --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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