On Monday 24 November 2003 12:40, Chris wrote:
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
> That will erase everything right?
From the fdisk man page:
The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in the first sec-
tor of the data area of the partition, and treats this information as
more reliable than the information in the partition table. DOS FORMAT
expects DOS FDISK to clear the first 512 bytes of the data area of a
partition whenever a size change occurs. DOS FORMAT will look at this
extra information even if the /U flag is given -- we consider this a
bug in DOS FORMAT and DOS FDISK.
fdisk, unlike the dos version, should not touch the partitions at all. From
what you've described, fdisk can read the partition table but the linux
kernel can not. In the other thread, you said you hadn't changed anything -
I'm believing you and assuming that the /dev entries are correct and that
your kernel has all the necessary support. So, that leaves the partition
table. fdisk should fix that.
Again, no warranties.
Jason
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