OK, me again, about 15 minutes later only! Well, here's the scoop: 16.74GB FAT32 partition, with the disklabel and boot sector backup issues that everyone hates. I had all but 3 or 4 MB of that partition filled. So, I just moved off approximately 1.91GB, tried to re-disklabel it (btw, this is all being done via gparted in SystemRescueCD). So. Tried to re-disklabel it. Nope. Sorry, Charlie. So, told gparted to check and fix the partition (which as mentioned in last post, I had done before, but did not have enough free space for fsck to grow partition, etc.). This time, gparted whipped through the job in just 5 or 10 minutes at most, reporting all is well. Still got that butt-ugly disklabel staring at me. So, here goes nothing....
I tell gparted to bitchslap that disklabel outta there - as in I told it to apply a BLANK disklabel. Nice. Just like a hunting dog it tore into the bushes and came back out with the prize - the disk label now can be changed, evidently, at least to a blank! So, show me more, baby. Re- label it SDB6-FAT32. Thank you. Copy my data back (yes, I know, I said I was gonna re-partition, but don't we all just want to know if I've got a reliable fix here? I sure do...). So, FAT-32, stuffed to the gills again. Shut down, rebuntu my Ubunto and voila! No more mis-matched backup booty sectors no more, no more no more! All is as good and well as a FAT-32 partition can be. Screw it. Gonna play some OpenArena tonight. I'll migrate the data, paths, scripts and such another day (SURE, I will, LOL!)... Hope this fun tale helps someone. I'm pretty sure I dealt with this issue at least a handful of times, across several distros, across a few years,. Hell, this partition is back from 1997 or so, Interstate '76 data and such on it, LOL! Someday I'll tell the tale of how I recovered a majorly baked drive back in the mid-90s, and kept using it, even with essentially a "GRAND CANYON:" of crappy sectors (far more than any badblocks table could hold) right in the middle of it - that was my primary partition back then, in those days, man! I couldn't bear to not have it (that and I'm too poor/cheap to buy disk space - hell hardware - someone always gives me their old hand-me-downs..... GOOD LUCK AND GOOD NIGHTT! -- Ax-L -- More info about "filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494843 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
