won't boot because of fstab changes [SOLVED]

[aldrigmer]

Hi!

im new on linux mint and sofar everythings been fine - but i wanted my harddrives and partitions to automount and changed them with mountmanager and after that i couldnt boot anymore. i get to the linux mint logo and then it stops. through repair mode or what its called i could see it stops becouse it cant mount all devices. how can i change that? i have a live cd and would like an answer i can understand can i somehow reset fstab? without too much knowledge of linux?

[nomko]

Hi!

im new on linux mint and sofar everythings been fine - but i wanted my harddrives and partitions to automount and changed them with mountmanager and after that i couldnt boot anymore. i get to the linux mint logo and then it stops. through repair mode or what its called i could see it stops becouse it cant mount all devices. how can i change that? i have a live cd and would like an answer i can understand can i somehow reset fstab? without too much knowledge of linux?

If everything went okay, you should have a backup file of your original fstab file. Start the live-cd and mount your internal disc and open it with the filemanager. Go to this directory: /etc/ and delete the fstab file. Then rename your backed up fstab file.

Your original fstab file is simply called: fstab
The backed up file is called fstab.backup. Just by removing the extension .backup and you have your original fstab file back. Reboot and see what happens then.

If you can log into linux, open a terminal and type the following command:

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cat /etc/fstab

and place the output here. Also tell us then which drives you want to automount.

[aldrigmer]

Thank you for your answer!

i have no backup!
this is what fstab looks like:
UUID=8E2C05EC2C05D05F /media/user/Musik ntfs-3g users 0 0
UUID=001CE7BD1CE7AC3A /media/user/001CE7BD1CE7AC3A ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
UUID=6614a18c-b008-4daa-8fe1-006887d9df7e swap swap sw 0 0
UUID=8CB0AA73B0AA6404 /media/user/8CB0AA73B0AA6404 ntfs-3g users 0 0
UUID=bdee0c71-50bf-4d72-9c86-1e678c175dc7 / ext4 users 0 1

cat /etc/fstab gives me:
overlayfs / overlayfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0

[aldrigmer]

all i get after trying recovery mode is:

mountall : mount/ permission denied

and then it stops

[altair4]

UUID=bdee0c71-50bf-4d72-9c86-1e678c175dc7 / ext4 users 0 1

The "users" option disables the ability to execute any binaries - even to root. Root is trying to execute a whole mess of stuff when it boots so this is not a good thing.

Change the line to look like this:

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UUID=bdee0c71-50bf-4d72-9c86-1e678c175dc7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0       1

That will get you back to the default setting for that partition.

From the looks of it you may get other errors but you should be given a chance to bypass them and boot anyway. If this works we can fix the ntfs partitions to have a better set of options than what mountmanger offered.

[aldrigmer]

thank you altair4!
worked just fine. so now my fstab looks like this:

UUID=8E2C05EC2C05D05F /media/user/Musik ntfs-3g users 0 0
UUID=001CE7BD1CE7AC3A /media/user/001CE7BD1CE7AC3A ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
UUID=6614a18c-b008-4daa-8fe1-006887d9df7e swap swap sw 0 0
UUID=8CB0AA73B0AA6404 /media/user/8CB0AA73B0AA6404 ntfs-3g users 0 0
UUID=bdee0c71-50bf-4d72-9c86-1e678c175dc7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

and everything is working just fine. every disk/partition mounted succesfully on startup, just like i wanted. should i keep it that way or was this a temporary solution?

[altair4]

thank you altair4!
worked just fine. so now my fstab looks like this:

UUID=8E2C05EC2C05D05F /media/user/Musik ntfs-3g users 0 0
UUID=001CE7BD1CE7AC3A /media/user/001CE7BD1CE7AC3A ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
UUID=6614a18c-b008-4daa-8fe1-006887d9df7e swap swap sw 0 0
UUID=8CB0AA73B0AA6404 /media/user/8CB0AA73B0AA6404 ntfs-3g users 0 0
UUID=bdee0c71-50bf-4d72-9c86-1e678c175dc7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

and everything is working just fine. every disk/partition mounted succesfully on startup, just like i wanted. should i keep it that way or was this a temporary solution?

As an ordained minister in the "Church of If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It", I would leave it alone. And this was permanent.

I personally don't care much for how those NTFS partitions are configured but as you found out they will work. Besides, if you are the only user of the PC I suppose it doesn't matter.

I would like to make one recommendation though: Do not use mountmanager, PySDM, ntfs-config, especially Disks, or any of the other fstab editors - each one of them has issues and produce unpredictable results.

[aldrigmer]

thank you very much