On 21 Nov 2009 at 15:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote: From: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Message when mounting ext4 boot partition, but works. Date sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:19:15 +0100 Copies to: "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]>
> On Saturday 21 November 2009 09:06, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > I just did a clean install of Fedora 12, and did a remote backup of the > > system. I change the grub.conf to default to my g4l option which uses > > busybox. After it boots, I can remotely access it and mount the boot > > partition > > to reset the grub to boot from the default kernel before doing the image > > backup. Seems Fedora 12 now creates the boot partition as ext4 instead of > > the older ext2? > > > > No problem with mounting the ext4 partition, but it does show the following > > message. > > ... when you run what command exacty? mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/local In the past, this was the /boot partition and ext2 format, and now with Fedora 12 with a clean install it is now an ext4 partition. > > > NTFS signature is missing. > > Failed to mount '/dev/hda6': Invalid argument > > The device '/dev/hda6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. > > Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a > > partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around? > > NTFS signature is missing. > > Failed to mount '/dev/hda6': Invalid argument > > The device '/dev/hda6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. > > Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a > > partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around? > > > > Not sure if I double copied the above or if it happened that way. The > > partition > > does get mounted correctly, so not sure why the above message appears? It > > is only cosmetic. > -- > vda +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) bo...@home CREDITS SETI 8,868,694.648 | EINSTEIN 3,280,633.771 | ROSETTA 1,470,775.825 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
