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Peter Onion Peter.Onion@btinternet.com wrote:
I do hope that the wrecklessness with which people are treating other peoples machines on the IRC channel at the moment doesn't result in the loss of anyones important data.
We are not being wreckless, we are going very slow and explaining the steps. The partition that we're adding to fstab will be mounted *read only* as it is NTFS and we can't mount it any other way... how do you expect data loss from that?
As far as I'm concerned getting a less than expert user to edit /etc/fstab via instructions on IRC is asking for trouble.
Sorry, but just out of interest, how did *you* first encounter fstab? As long as you do not remove random lines from it, it's fairly damned safe to edit. If you don't know what's safe and not safe to remove, don't remove things. Adding an extra line for mounting a partition read only is not rocket science. We are, as we said in channel, going through *very* slowly and checking and double checking before anything anyways.
Also, as wildfire_cs had already said, he's got *several* ubuntu live cds laying about, so if all else fails, we can repair it from there.
Oh, and while I've been typing this response to your irrational post...
- --- Start Paste from IRC --- 22:16 <+quinophex> wildfire_cs: you don't have any important data in your ubuntu install do you? 22:16 < wildfire_cs> nope havent beena able to get at important dat yet thats wat im tryin to do - --- End Paste from IRC ---
It's a *clean* ubuntu install that he'd *only* just installed before connecting to IRC. We've done *FAR* scarier things over IRC... *waves to Jenny* - like compiling kernel modules for wifi cards...
I understand that at the moment you're probably a bit on edge due to the looming job interview.
I've no problem with people going "it's all doomed", but it's a little much when you're doing that and not listening to anyone else, and haven't bothered to ask the major questions that you outlined here.
Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk