Zero-lenght partition

[Patrick Boutilier]

Andrea Carotti wrote:
> Hi all,
>    while rebooting after an hard shutdown (a power supply problem) 
> having the autofsck enabled on boot, I receive this error:
> " fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> read while trying to open /dev/hda2
> Could this be a zero-length partition? "
> 
> Could anyone tell me the best procedure to fix this? I'm a bit scared 
> :-|....

What does

fdisk -l /dev/hda


report ?


> TNX
> Andrea
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