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Help: Emergency Mode after Windows borked everything, BTRFS, LUKS, Fedora
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Why isn't there a fstab Gui editor that comes standard with livecds?
It would either be horrendously complex or no better than a text editor.
Yet in other operating systems, it is trivial to setup mount points with only the gui
You can set up mount points on Linux, at least in GNOME, very easily. (It's even fully automatic for external disks.) I'd be surprised if it isn't as easy in KDE and other desktops too.
The problem here (at least from what it sounds like) isn't setting up mount points. The problem is fixing an incorrect fstab on the disk that's causing the system to hang on boot.
(This isn't a typical situation, which is why I also asked about how the partition was added to the system.)
Other operating systems probably don't have the diversity of Linux
Good point! GNOME Disks can do this, actually. I didn't think about that.
(Edit: However, I think it'll just edit the /etc/fstab of the running system. In other words, the one of the live session, not the one on the installation.)