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I'm trying to edit the fstab file and apparently I have to be a super user to do this. I find this a little confusing since I'm the one that installed the OS and set the current passwords. How do I edit the fstab file?

Name: jefro
Date: August 27, 2007 at 14:07:48 Pacific

Reply:

su (then carriage return) (You will have to enter the admin or root password) Then use editor to edit the file. Vi vim nano or others even an x based editor could be used. I have begun to like nano more and more. In the future you could run sudo if you enable the current user to be on the sudoers file. Then you enter the current users password instead of roots. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

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