UPDATED NEW PROB.Deleted partition, Mint is unhappy on boot.

[Sayhar]

Hi all.

So I'm running mint on /dev/sda2, and set it to automount /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5

I deleted /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5.

Now, every time I restart the computer, Mint throws and error and talks about missing the UUID's of those partitions. I can ignore it with control-D, but is there a way to remove this annoyance every time I turn 0n my laptop?

[Husse]

There surely is - you need to do a little editing
Once booted do the following

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gksu gedit /etc/fstab

Delete or comment out the lines referring to the partitions
If, quite unexpectedly, there are none please post back

[deadguy]

Hi all.

So I'm running mint on /dev/sda2, and set it to automount /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5

I deleted /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5.

Now, every time I restart the computer, Mint throws and error and talks about missing the UUID's of those partitions. I can ignore it with control-D, but is there a way to remove this annoyance every time I turn 0n my laptop?

you can take the deleted partitions out of fstab.

first back up fstab just in case:

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sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab~bkp

then:

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gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

remove the lines for /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5
save the file and you should boot normally again.

<edit> oops Husse beat me to it

[Husse]

@ deadguy
This is one of quirks of this forum
My post is posted 8:41 and yours 8:46 and still you did not see it
I see this now and then so there is some kind of delay....

[Sayhar]

Thanks, but now I have a new problem.

The actual error says something like l-

"error: sda2 metadata says it should be size X, but in reality the size on disk is Y. "

and then tells me to login as root to fix, I don't know the root password (since it's randomized because of Elyssa's security hole), and then the laptop restarts and the whole process starts over again.

I have access to a livecd. what can I do to fix please?