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bentj93@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Tim Benham) writes:
>Recently I made the mistake of mke2fs-ing my remaining 57MB MSDOS
>partition.

I presume you mean it was a mistake because you have not been able to
get it to work, rather than you mkfs'ed over your dos fs by mistake. :)

>Despite doing everything as I had been told - umounted
>the dos partition, mke2fs'd it, edited /etc/fstab to suit - it
>never mounted correctly during system boot. Instead the error message
>shown at exhibit A was always displayed. Running fsck against /dev/hda1 
>would always 'fix' the problem, but the error message remained the
>same.

Two things to try. First if you are using e2fsprogs 0.5 then you *MUST*
upgrade to 0.5a, as 0.5 has some bugs (one of which caused something
very similar to what you're experiencing on my machine). Secondly, try
running e2fsck by hand (ie without the -a switch) and answer 'y' to
everything.


 - Mike

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