Gabriel Farrell wrote:
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
NO! You do not want to delete that. hda5 and hda6 are logical drives
created inside the extended partition. If you delete hda3 you will
automatically delete your hda5 (your swap) And your hda6 (your home
dirs) Not sure if it makes a difference but I usually create my swap
partitions at the end of the drive. You could try moving your /home dirs
and then delete it and the swap drive and recreate them again later.
When I run cfdisk /dev/hda3 doesn't show up either. This is normal.
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