Lyvim Xaphir wrote:More than once, when changing the filesystem type in diskdrake, I have had the experience of the format not being recognized after a reboot. For instance, the filesystem might come up looking like Linux Native in diskdrake or fdisk and doing mkreiserfs manually (and another reboot) does the trick. Do you see the partitions as xfs in diskdrake?
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Hello all,
Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount?
I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it
Your fstab file does not matter at all in this context, which is to achieve a basic mount of the drives. The only reason an fstab file exists is so that parameters can be passed to mount by a script and approved by root.
The main concern right now is, have your drives been corrupted. If mount cannot do a manual operation, then that means it's not seeing what it is supposed to be seeing when you make the attempt. Don't want to worry you but this isn't good. It's still probably something simple, though.
To verify that this is or is not the case the next thing is you need to do is comment out everything pertaining to the partitions in question in fstab and start mount attempts manually, because at this point fstab is redundant and is only going to get in your way; at least until you achieve a successful manual mount. After you get rid or disable the relevant entries in fstab, again attempt to mount them xfs. If they won't mount xfs, then boot your 9.1 cdrom and go into rescue mode. NOW attempt to mount xfs. If it still won't go then try to mount them reiser. If that doesn't work...
Well, give that a shot and we'll go from there.
LX
With the fstab entries commented out.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mount -t xfs /dev/hdg1 /drive2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1, or too many mounted file systems
This is also what I see at boot.
What could have happened to both of the drives to corrupt them, if that is the case? They were working like a dream before the shutdown.
Could it be a kernel module problem? XFS is compiled as a module. Wouldn't that have kept it from working at all (even before the reboot) if that were the case?
Rolf
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