Partition issues in ubuntu

[TBBZ8X8]

I made a partition on my main drive because I don't need that much space on it and tried to mount it to a folder on my second drive. Apparently my partition is not in fstab or something of that nature I looked in that file and, what do you know it's not there. I tried to add it and it broke my computer. What am I doing wrong?

[Electronics Wizardy]

We need way more details.  What do you mean by broke my computer. Screen shot of lsblk please. 

[TBBZ8X8]

It won't boot. Slams into safe mode with the command line or whatever and I can only get it to boot again after I remove the text I put into fstab. I am not at home right now so I can't get screenshots for a little while...

[VicBar]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

We need way more details.  What do you mean by broke my computer. Screen shot of lsblk please. 

I agree, run "lsblk" on the terminal so we know what the situation is like... Also please show what you wrote in fstab

[samiscool51]

i don't think the ubuntu installer has a repair option but check that out it might

also next time you want to partition your drive turn the system off and use Gparted:

http://gparted.org/

every person i know has either used it or heard of it.

at my work, we have a network live disk of it on out servers so we all can use it!

[TBBZ8X8]

1 hour ago, samiscool51 said:

i don't think the ubuntu installer has a repair option but check that out it might

also next time you want to partition your drive turn the system off and use Gparted:

http://gparted.org/

every person i know has either used it or heard of it.

at my work, we have a network live disk of it on out servers so we all can use it!

No my computer is fine now I just can't mount the drive is the problem. I did use gparted initially but it wouldent mount my partition so I tried using terminal to mount my partition and it gave me the error /dev/sda4 does not exist in fstab

[samiscool51]

5 minutes ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

No my computer is fine now I just can't mount the drive is the problem. I did use gparted initially but it wouldent mount my partition so I tried using terminal to mount my partition and it gave me the error /dev/sda4 does not exist in fstab

then either the partition is corrupted or your drive is dead

is it making any strange noises?

is it getting active airflow from a fan?

etc....

if the partition is corrupted then recovery tools can repair or restore the partition

https://www.linux.com/learn/how-fix-mangled-partition-table-linux

follow this, it should fix your probelm

just follow the steps...

[TBBZ8X8]

I got it

I never realized I had to manually put the partition into fstab. 

I followed this guide...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/303497/adding-an-entry-to-fstab

I am sorry for being so stupid