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From: Michael Hast evylrobot@gmail.com
To: slug@nks.net
Sent: 8/26/07 8:40 PM
Subject: [SLUG] reading drives...
> Hey, all.
>
> As usual, I have decided to do things the hard way. I decided to upgrade
> from Debian Sarge to Etch a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I didn't read
> the recomended method by which to do this, but jumped in with both feet,
> shooting from the hip, like some kind of geeky, blood-raged cowboy. Anyway,
> I screwed up my install by breaking a multitude of packages, and decided to
> download and install Etch from scratch. I backed up all of my files to CD
> and DVD, and went to town. I keep most of my files on my "/home/shared"
> partition, anyway (hdb6), and thought that I could edit this partition back
> into my /etc/fstab, and not lose said files. Well, it didn't work. I
> actually copied my /etc/fstab file to another machine on the network, so
> that I could use it as a reference for the mount point and options, and
> after editing that partition in exactly as it had been before, I still
> cannot browse into it. I know that there has got to be a way to do this,
> but I'm at a loss as to where to go. Any help would be vastly appreciated.
> If it makes a difference, it's Debian 4.0, kernel 2.6.x, with KDE 3.5 on a
> P4. Thanks!
>
> --Michael
>
>
In the past I had a similar problem.
I reloaded an OS and could not "browse" by habit.
Where you using a auto-mount utility with Sarge?
If the command was in fstab but the utility was not loaded...?
>From a console can you mount hdb6...
as root and "ls" to see the contents?
how about as user?
/robin
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