I deleted /etc/vfstab, how to recover it

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 08/14/2008 - 15:03

Something bad could happen if you delete /etc/vfstab by mistake and you do not have a backup, the system would not find the required partitions to boot, they are: root (/), /usr, and /var.


 

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