At some point a little while ago I started getting the following message at boot time:
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /shome] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda3 Could this be a zero-length partition? fsck died with exit status 8 The booting up of my machine (unstable on a Thinkpad x31) stops there, and I'm told to manually fix the partition table. If I don't do anything, and Ctrl-D to exit the repair shell, bootup continues and everything seems to work fine. If I print the partition table in fdisk I get (notice how hda3 overlaps hda5 and hda6): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 665 5027368+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 666 1569 6834240 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1570 5168 27208440 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1570 1724 1171768+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 1725 5168 26036608+ 83 Linux In cfdisk, however, the partition table looks like this (notice the lack of an hda3): Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hda1 Boot Primary NTFS 5148.06 hda2 Primary Linux ext3 [/] 6998.27 hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1199.93 hda6 Logical Linux ext3 [/home] 26661.52 I never created an hda3 during installation, and I don't know where it came from. I'm tempted to just delete it, but I'm afraid that would cause irreperable damage. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. gsf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
