Re: ext2fs filesystem died

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From: Gregory D. Nowicki
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 15:33

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In article <1994Jul16.010625.25751@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>, bentj93@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Tim Benham) writes:
>Recently I made the mistake of mke2fs-ing my remaining 57MB MSDOS
>partition. 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. I edited /dev/hda1 out of /etc/fstab so as not to be continually
>reminded of the fact I had 57M of unusable disk.
>
[lots of info deleted]

Question - Did you run the Linux fdisk first?

>
>--
>		  People who like this sort of thing
>       	      will find this the sort of thing they like.
>Tim J.Benham                                       bentj93@cs.adfa.oz.au
-Greg

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