Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:28:59AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 20:09:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Note: I misunderstood you here, assuming that you had actively removed
> the signatures yourself after checking that it made sense to do so.
>
> [...]
>
> > > I would like to see your output of
> > >
> > > wipefs /dev/hda1
> >
> > No output.
>
> That is not good; it should show at least the signature of the ext3
> filesystem.
>
> # wipefs /dev/hda1
> offset type
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 0x438 ext3 [filesystem]
> LABEL: root
> UUID: 51e39ea1-999d-4567-8e50-11ad53029e9c
>
> > There was output
>
> I need to know exactly what this output was.
>
> > before I ran wipe /dev/hda1 the first time.
> > It said it was removing two bits.
>
> It should have done anything when run without options, unless you have a
> different version of until-linux than the current one for Squeeze. There
> was a reason for my explicitly asking you to read the manpage to make
> sure you understand what you are doing. I thought you understood the
> inherent risk of operations on the filesystem structure and that you
> would make an informed decision if that risk is worthwhile. I cannot
> make any more suggestions to you if you unquestioningly use the tools
> that I propose without regarding the caveats that I point out.
I did read the man page first. It said wipefs -n /dev/hda1 would do
everything except the write call. I ran it that way and the output was
much like the example you gave above with a message that two bits would
be removed. I assumed the two bits were the leftover signature and ran
wipefs again without the -n option.
Since then the computer was shutdown overnight. Reboot this morning
stopped in maintenance mode reporting a bad superblock in /dev/hda1. I
ran e2fsck -b xxxx /dev/hda1 where xxxx was the given alternate
superblock. The systen then rebooted normally.
Now the output of wipefs -n /dev/hda1 is:
offset type
----------------------------------------------------------------
0x438 ext2 [filesystem]
UUID: 2428f3c0-3098-448c-9484-587eb9f86e37
>
> Does "blkid /dev/hda1" still return the correct label, UUID and type?
Yes
/dev/hda1: UUID="2428f3c0-3098-448c-9484-587eb9f86e37" TYPE="ext2"
Installation of linux-base still fails as described previously and
dosfslabel /dev/hda1 still gives the error message posted prevously but
e2fsck /dev/hda1 says it is clean.
Tom
>
> > > (to verify that the ext3 signature has the normal offset) and also the
> > > output of
> > >
> > > fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> [...]
>
> > 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
>
> That looks OK to me.
>
> --
> Regards, |
> Florian |
>
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