On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 02:45:34PM +0100, Peter Berrie wrote:

When I run fsck I get a message saying it failed to parse line 12 of fstab.

Here is line 12:

UUID=[as obtained from blkid] /home ext3 noatime defaults 0 2

It has noatime because its an SSD. Its wrapped the line of course, in the text editor its all on one line.

What is wrong with it?

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