fix for bug #12860

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fstab.py b/fstab.py
index bd2636315..500b31994 100644
--- a/fstab.py
+++ b/fstab.py
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ def readFstab (path, fstab):
 
 	if not fields: continue
 
-	if fields[0] == "#" and fields[1][0:4] == "LOOP":
+	if fields[0] == "#" and len(fields)>4 and fields[1][0:4] == "LOOP":
 	    device = string.lower(fields[1])
 	    if device[len(device) - 1] == ":":
 		device = device[0:len(device) - 1]