Re: Help: disk problems..
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote
> Help!!
>
> I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some
> (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for
> Apache was OK, se we re-booted.
>
> At re-boot I now get:
> |--------------
> | ...
> | .. checking root file system
> | fsck.ext2: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
> while trying to open /dev/hda1
> | Could this be a zero length partition?
> |
> | fsck failed. please repair manually and re-boot. Please note that the
> root file system is mounted Read-only,
> | ....
> |give root password for maintenance.
> |---------------
> Ok, I go root, and look around. everything seems OK, all files there.
>
> fdisk shows partitions OK:
> |------------------
> | boot device format size start end
> | * /dev/hda1 Extended 1580M 2 785
> | hda2 DOS FAT-16 50M 2 27
> | * hda6 Linux ext2 1250M 28 662
> | hda7 linux swap 250M 663 785
> |-------------
> a v option to fdisk (check partition table) says: 8249 unallocated sectors
>
> running fdisk from a rescue floppy on /dev/hda6 gives (immediately):
> e2fsck
> /dev/hda6: clean, 29621/641024 files, 542724/3560288 blocks.
>
> It seems to report this Immediately, no time, no disk work. (???)
>
> I tried re-writing the boot block to the first partition (the one reported
> troublesome), /dev/hda1, seems to work fine.
>
Your root filesystem is on /dev/hda6, but rcS said:
> | .. checking root file system
> | fsck.ext2: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
> while trying to open /dev/hda1
> | Could this be a zero length partition?
It's trying to fsck your extneded partition, rather than your true root
partition. My guess is that /etc/fstab is wrong, and that it lists
/dev/hda1 as root instead of /dev/hda6. The fact that you get to
single-user mode means that hte kernel and LILO are configured correctly.
HTH,
John P.
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