Error using cfdisk

[vikster007]

It worked but when i restarted the computer the changes were gone. While in knoppix though i did as you said, and i thought it did save because i closed and reopened the file twice and the / was there. When i restarted though it still froze, then I put in the live cd and the / was gone. Also my fstab file changed a bit. It now reads:

/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,rp 0 0
#Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0

[budman7]

Are you sure that you edited the fstab file for the hard disk and not the livecd.?

[vikster007]

I found the fstab file on my hardrive, it was in /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab
So then i opened the Konsole logged in as root and entered:

vi /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab

It opened a different file that looks like this:

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0

Sorry about that. But please help me, i would really like to use linux without having to wait for my cd drive to spin up every 10 seconds.

Thnx, Vik

[budman7]

Change the options part so it looks like

noauto,users,exec

Instead of

defaults,errors=remount-ro

The rest looks good.

[vikster007]

It wont let me write the changes because it says it is read-only. I am looged in as root though. It says, when i hit ZZ to add a ! but that doesnt work.

[budman7]

You have to make it writable first by right-clicking on the hard disk icon o the Live Knoppix desktop.

[vikster007]

haha i read somewhere that you had to right click to make it writable, i kept trying on the file itself. Thnx i made the hard drive writable i am now going to try editing the file like you said.
Thnx Vik

[vikster007]

It got further than the devfs error (although it still said the same thing) then some colored text started coming everythign seemed to be working and suddenly it read restarting. It was too fast for me to read the whole screen but anyways it restarted and now it freezes again at the same spot it use to.
Do you think i should just reinstall knoppix, or will this same thing happen again?

I used the knoppix live cd to look at my fstab file again it looks like this:

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 / ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0