Chris
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From: "Jason Stubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] formating a partition
On Monday 24 November 2003 12:09, Chris wrote:
> fsck always failed with exit code 6 {what ever that stands for}
>From the man page:
The exit code returned by fsck is the sum of the following
conditions:
<snip>
2 - System should be rebooted
4 - File system errors left uncorrected
<snip>
> and
> /dev/hdb3 does not exist
> yet fdisk sayes it is
Sounds like maybe hdb's partition table is corrupted.
If fdisk picks up all partitions, try opening hdb with fdisk, confirming
that
everything is correct, writing the partition table and exiting again.
i.e.
fdisk /dev/hdb
p
v
w
Jason
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That will erase everything right?
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