Comments on: How to Fix “failed to mount /etc/fstab” Error in Linux

By: Khoi

Khoi — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:11:35 +0000

Hello, My cloned Fedora has the same issue. Journalctl also shows errors with /etc/fstab. I followed your steps and in emergency mode, there is no vi and no /etc/fstab. Can you advise how to fix it?

By: chaitanya

chaitanya — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 05:42:41 +0000

Hi, I have tried with the above one but it did not work. I cant able to write in /etc/fstab and while opening the /etc/sudoers file it is showing as permission denied. Can you please help me to resolve the issue?

By: Jack H

Jack H — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:13:11 +0000

In reply to john.

@john, Simply shift-right-click a folder previous (like the etc folder) and choose to open as administrator (or whatever the verbiage is).

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:41:20 +0000

In reply to john.

@John

Try to edit it with sudo or root privileges:

$ sudo vim /etc/fstab
OR
# vim /etc/fstab

By: john

john — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:55:21 +0000

Hi,

I am currently experiencing the same issue with an incorrect statement in my fstab file. when I use vim to edit /etc/fstab and correct the problem, I can’t save the file because it says it is a read-only file. how do I bypass this in order to save the correction made to the fstab file?

Thanks