[PLUG] Digging out of a deep hole

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Fri Apr 4 12:51:02 UTC 2003


* Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> [030403 19:31]:
>
>   Well, I _was_ going to upgrade to 9.0 anyway, but this is a bit sooner
> than planned. My question to you SysAdmins is this: without /etc/fstab will
> I have to repartition the hard drive or will fdisk keep the information and
> let the system recreate /etc/fstab?

It's been a long time since I last used Slack, but the upgrade should
be able to handle it. Your partitions haven't changed, however you will
need to be able to tell it which partition is mounted where - i.e.
that /dev/hda1 is mounted on /, /dev/hda2 is /home, /dev/hdb1 is /tmp.

--Stafford




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