Failure to Mount 4638

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:41:15 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann staggered into the Black Sun and said:

? Your fstab says different. Having only one parbreastion is certainly not usual. Most of the time, you wanthome separate from , andusr andvar are typically separate as well. You also appear to be using LVM.

fstab says that hdb has 3 primary parbreastions, not logical parbreastions. On the x86, "logical parbreastion" typically refers to a parbreastion within What does "fdisk -ldev-hdb" say?

Anyway, the error points to a problem with the filesystem on hdb2, or maybe the filesystem was made without -j and is ext2 instead of 3, or possibly a bad device name if fstab isn't synced with the parbreastion table on hdb. Check the parbreastion table. If it reports 3 primary parbreastions of type 0x83, run "dumpe2fsdev-hdb2 head -n20" . If it doesn't display "hasjournal" in the features line, it's ext2. tune2fs -j the filesystem or mount it as ext2. If it does have a journal, you need to e2fsck it. If fsck complains that it can't find the superblock, add "-b 32768" to use the first backup superblock.

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