Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because
> > > > dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base.
> > > >
> > > > Trying to resolve this I used e2fsck to check each of the disk
> > > > partitions and e2fsck reported all the partitions clean. However, the
> > > > result of running dosfslabel /dev/hda1 results in the following output:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
> > > > Differences: (offset:original/backup)
>
> [...]
>
> > > > Not automatically fixing this.
> > > > NO NAME
> > > >
> > > > This hard drive used to have windoze installed and could be booted. The
> > > > windoze partition was reformated to be an ext2 partition.
>
> [...]
>
> > > The first thing I would do is to check for signatures of other
> > > filesystems that were left behind on /dev/hda1:
> > >
> > > wipefs /dev/hda1
>
> [...]
>
> > No luck. wipefs removed two bits
>
> That is better in any case; such stale additional signatures cause
> problems for blkid.
>
> > but the output of dosfstab was
> > unchanged. I tried aptitude -f install and the installation of
> > linux-base still failed as shown below:
>
> [...]
>
> > The following partially installed packages will be configured:
> > linux-base linux-image-2.6-amd64 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
> > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ...
> > Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector size.
> > dosfslabel failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1059, <STDIN> line 10.
> > dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure):
> > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9
>
> [...]
>
> > I assume the problem is with /dev/hda1 as the output of dosfslabel run
> > on any other partition is: Logical sector size is zero.
>
> OK, the normal way to fix the "differences between boot sector and its
> backup" problem on a vfat filesystem is:
>
> fsck.vfat -ar /dev/hda1
>
> (The filesystem should be unmounted for this procedure.)
>
> However, I have never had to use it on an ext3 partition and I have no
> idea if is safe, therefore I am hesitant to recommend it to you.
> (Fsck.vfat will overwrite the backup of the boot sector with its current
> content, making the two identical again.)
>
> I would like to see your output of
>
> wipefs /dev/hda1
No output. There was output before I ran wipe /dev/hda1 the first time.
It said it was removing two bits.
>
> (to verify that the ext3 signature has the normal offset) and also the
> output of
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
GNU Fdisk 1.2.4
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Disk /dev/hda: 30 GB, 30754321920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3739 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 243 1951866 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 244 3739 28073587 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 244 3739 28073587 83 Linux
Warning: Partition 5 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>
> to check if the partition type is correct.
>
> --
> Regards, |
> Florian |
>
>
Note: e2fsck /dev/hda5 still says
/dev/hda5: 467/3415689 files, 33740347/7023967 blocks
Tom
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