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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Another fsck error at startup
Linux reads /dev/sda1,5, AND 6 just fine. I just get the error message and
must press control-d durring startup. Infact I even saved a file in /dev/sda6
last night.
:)~MIKE~(:

On Monday 04 August 2003 02:06 pm, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Hrmmm... Everything looks OK based on your output.
>
> Did you create that partition (/dev/sda6) during installation, or after the
> machine was set up? If after the machine was set up, after you created the
> partition using fdisk or whatever, did you run mkfs on the partition? Can
> you see /dev/sda5 OK?
> --
> Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
> Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
> http://www.camerontech.com/
> (512) 454-3200
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Havens" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Another fsck error at startup
>
> > says Thomas Cameron:
> > Please post the results of:
> > cat /proc/partitions
> > cat /etc/fstab
> > fdisk -l /dev/sda
> >
> > I reply:
> > bmike1@bmike1:~$ su
> > Password:
> > root@bmike1:/home/bmike1# cat /proc/partitions; cat /etc/fstab; fdisk -l
> > /dev/sda
> > major minor #blocks name
> >
> >    8     0    1025500 sda
> >    8     1     409584 sda1
> >    8     2          1 sda2
> >    8     5     511984 sda5
> >    8     6     103408 sda6
> >    3     0   29316672 hda
> >    3     1   14659281 hda1
> >    3     2          1 hda2
> >    3     5   14651248 hda5
> > # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
> > #
> > # filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
> > /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
> > /dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat

>
> defaults,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix
>
> > 0 0
> > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> > /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
> > /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
> > /dev/sda1 swap swap noauto 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 1050 MB, 1050112000 bytes
> > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1001 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *         1       400    409584   82  Linux swap
> > /dev/sda2           401      1001    615424    5  Extended
> > /dev/sda5           401       900    511984   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda6           901      1001    103408   83  Linux
> > root@bmike1:/home/bmike1#

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