Re: Unexpected filesystem inconsistency

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Am Son, 27 Aug 2000 01:23:55 schrieb Moritz Schulte:
> Hi,
> I'm unable to install Debian GNU/Hurd now. I did it some time ago,
> without these problems.

You upgraded e2fsprogs to 1.19 in the meantime.
 
> Ok, I have a free partition (/dev/hda7 in Linux), which size is
> reported by 'df' as 957MB. I formated it with 'mke2fs -o hurd
> /dev/hda7'

Please use "-O none" or "-O sparse_super", nd your problems will
disappear. The filetype feature is not really supported on the Hurd
(although we can ignore it quite well :), and newer e2fsck get really
annoyed by it.

You can also run "e2fsck -y /dev/hda7" and get the filetype
removed afterwards.

BTW, this time I was able to guess your problem. Next time please
provide all the necessary information, for example the exact
error message of e2fsck (it actually tells you about the filetype).

Thanks,
Marcus