Tim Fairchild wrote:
[snip]
> To fill in details, I deleted a 300 meg OS/2 hpfs partition a couple of
> weeks back and converted it to ext2, and then shifted /usr/local to this
> bigger partition. No problem, at least not until now.
>
[snip]
>
> The strange bit is I ran fdisk only to find that the partition I had
> mounted as /usr/local was tagged as hpfs??? Does this mean there was a
> fault with the disk? The partition table was apparently altered back to
> a previous condition.
>
> I gingerly tagged the drive as 83 and restarted the machine. /usr/local
> is now mounted (unchecked at the moment) and all looks fine, but there
> are still lots of things that don't work, and I'm too much of a newbie
> at this to know how to start to attack this.
>
> Some problems: I can't fsck the partition and I don't get any feedback
> from fsck. I can't shutdown the machine in any normal way. I get
> complaints during booting about too many arguments or something, but
> these don't seem to show with dmesg, they may be unrelated and have
> something to do with the loopback device/network stuff?? I'm not sure
> what other logs to check? I'd reboot, but I don't seem to have a nice
> way to shut the machine down.
>
[snip]
Nearly the same thing happened to me. I converted a DOS partition to
ext2, but Win95 still 'saw' the drive and wanted to format the thing!
DOS fdisk tipped me off to what I had done -- the partition was still
tagged as a DOS partition because, I surmise, make2fs does not change
the tag on the partition! So I ran Linux fdisk, changed the tag, and
everything was fine.
When you run fsck you are unmounting the partition first, right?
Do you have the correct filesystem type listed for the partition in
/etc/fstab?
I don't know if it would matter, but how about the fsck order option in
/etc/fstab (that last number in the entry)? Is it a 2?
Good luck!
--
Fred W. Noltie Jr.
Criterion Consulting
Coon Rapids, MN USA
Running Linux 2.0.33
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