missing filesystem error

[Neil Schneider]

Lon McPhail said:

> I have a RH9.0 system which upon booting, goes into a filesystems
> maintenance
> mode.  I run fsck and get a...
>
> "couldn't find matching filesystem: LABEL=/usr/stow" error.
>
> Trying to fsck / e2fsck my way throught this with no success.  Do any of
> you
> here know how to either correct/repair this missing fs, or how to get the
> system to overlook it so that It'll boot?

One solution is to boot into single user mode, or with a rescue disk and
remove the entry for /usr/stow from /etc/fstab Another possibility is to
change the entry the same way to /dev/hd??

There probably are some other methods I haven't thought of.

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