Hello all, as reported earlier on this mailinglist I had problems mounting an JFS partition - it failed to mount when connected to an external device.
Meanwhile I managed to make the problem reproduce & fixable: mounting the JFS partition fails when the partition's journal was not already replayed by fsck. here the related lines from /etc/fstab #/dev/hdg1 /mnt/sda1 jfs defaults 1 2 #/dev/hdg2 /mnt/sda2 jfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 jfs defaults,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 jfs defaults,noauto 0 0 Note: I'm using an external IDE-Firewire bridge, so it's an SCSI-device to be mounted - anyway the IDE-HD is still the same. It's obvious that the on-boot scanning and error-attempt values have to be zero for an externally connected device that may be plugged in at any time - but it's not that obvious that an explicit journal replay is required prior to beeing able to mount the device. Best Regards ---------- Linux l1 2.4.20 l1:/mnt # mount /dev/sda1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems l1:/mnt # mount /dev/sda2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems l1:/mnt # fsck.jfs /dev/sda1 fsck.jfs version 1.1.1, 17-Dec-2002 The current device is: /dev/sda1 Block size in bytes: 4096 File system size in blocks: 3072423 Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log File system is clean. l1:/mnt # fsck.jfs /dev/sda2 fsck.jfs version 1.1.1, 17-Dec-2002 The current device is: /dev/sda2 Block size in bytes: 4096 File system size in blocks: 17030908 Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log File system is clean. l1:/mnt # mount /dev/sda1 l1:/mnt # mount /dev/sda2 l1:/mnt # _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
