Edited fstab = all apps stop working [SOLVED]

[Member PenguinGuy]

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Thumbdrive booted, found fstab & commented out the line, which seemed to fix it (glad nothing else got messed up).

I suppose this can be considered solved, but still not quite sure how to exec a drive without exec applied all drives in udevil.

If I use fstab to set the path as I did below it confuses the system even though the drive is correct (must do some weird append thing to the path).

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Nearly all the apps are not working & missing including the terminal. I can login, but I can’t logout.

icewm seems to load, but none of the app links or buttons work other than showing a few items (like Hexchat & Browser — which don’t open or run).

What I did was try to mount my sda5 drive to exec by setting it to something like…

/dev/sd5 / /auto/exec

This seemed to mount weird, so I unmounted it.

I think the system became confused with the main sd1 or sd0 (whatever it is called).

Any way to fix this by editing a config from the thumbdrive antix boot?

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PenguinGuy, better to use the UUID of the partition [[[ not /dev/sdX ]]] within fstab.
(some BIOS’s [[[or the linux kernel itself]]] may occasionally change the numerical order of storage devices.)

Also, fstab doesn’t understand “/auto/exec”
To learn the expected syntax, read: https://wiki.debian.org/fstab

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The auto/exec pattern was correct since I just copy & pasted another setting in fstab & changed the noexec to exec.

I was able to mount folder within the drive correctly.

However, when I changed the mounted path to just / (to try to mount the whole drive) the drive instead acted as an alias or link to the root drive’s /.

Then I umounted it & noticed all iceWM & all my apps were screwed up.

Rebooted & the whole system was still messed up.

Thanks, I’ll look up UUID.

Do you know the recommended way to configure it in antiX specifically?

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another learning resource page here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

The syntax of a fstab entry is :

[Device] [Mount Point] [File System Type] [Options] [Dump] [Pass]

You are insisting that “auto/exec” is correct, but the slash character is only valid for Device ans MountPoint fields…. and “auto” [[[aka autodetect]]] is typically used for the FileSystemType field… and “exec” [[[or “noexec”]]] is one of the available Options.

If you have, literally, created a “/exec/auto” directory path it could be specified as the MountPoint location, but….. why? Directories intended for use as MountPoints are conventionally created under “/mnt” or under “/media”.

To see a list of UUIDs:
ls -lha /dev/disk/by-uuid

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No here is the actual syntax I used:

/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,users,exec,ro            0 0

#/dev/sda5                                  /home                                       auto       noauto,users,exec,ro            0 0

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