Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

[Gabriel Farrell <gsf@panix.com>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:43:01PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Do you have hda3 in your fstab?  (You should not.)

Ah, that's it.  My fstab read as follows:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda3       /shome          ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sda1       /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   auto    ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hde1       /media/cflash0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Very odd.  I don't know when or how the /dev/hda3 line was created.
Once removed, the system boots without the error.  I'm a little
embarrassed, frankly.  I should have thought to check it before
posting to the list.

Many thanks for the responses.  I understood the limit on the number
of primary partitions, and the need therefore for logical partitions,
but I didn't understand the place of extended partitions in the whole
scheme.

gsf