Also - just for information: I saw something similar over the weekend. Due to problems with an install (another story!), I rebooted in rescue mode, and the root fs couldn't be found. I did fsck.ext2 on the actual partition (it is an ext3 partition), fixed some problems, and then mounted it.
ls showed an empty partition, but df saw plenty there. df -T, however, listed it as fat32! I tried fsck.ext3 (which I assume should be exactly the same as fsck.ext2), and mount -t ext3, and everything was OK. Brian
From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [expert] wierd FS situation
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:20:23 -0500
This message is just information only.
I was re-doing the VFAT32 hard drives for a server. I did the usual mke2fs -j
<device> (ext3) and the formatting went fine. I was able to store files and
read them just fine.
Due to an act of stupidity (it was early o'clock), I was forced to reload LM.
After getting the server going again, I went looking for the hard drives
which I had previously re-formatted. They were unreadable. ???? I knew the
formats had been ok, however, no combination of fstab parameters would
restore the drives to usability. Hummm.
After careful troubleshooting, I found that the fdisk partition for the
drives had remained VFAT32. However, the FS was EXT3 (verified by fsck.ext3).
Gee, I did not know that Linux could force a VFAT drive into becoming an EXT3
drive. Interesting, no?!
Anyhow, I fixed the situation by fdisking the drives properly and re-doing
the format & fstab entries. Just wanted to share that tidbit with everyone.
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