Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:43:01PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Do you have hda3 in your fstab? (You should not.) Ah, that's it. My fstab read as follows: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda2

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:22:29PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > hda3 CONTAINS hda5 and hda6. fdisk is showing the detailed > breakdown. cfdisk hides the breakdown and hides hda3 along > with it. cfdisk allows you to create partitions without > worrying about the limit of four partitions. cfdisk ha

Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Farrell
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

Re: fstab problem

2005-12-25 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > Rodney Richison wrote: > I chmod 777 /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and it finally mounted with mount -a > I then rebooted to make sure would mount. > It did not. And would not with mount -a Are you getting any relevant error messages with mou

trouble with install, hard drive error

2002-01-06 Thread Gabriel Farrell
I'm installing Debian 2.2r potato off the CDs onto my Toshiba Satellite Pro 405cs laptop. I ran into trouble while installing the packages with dselect. While unpacking, I received error messages on a couple packages (gimp and something else, i think), and it told me to run dpkg --configure -a.