Wrong fs type detected

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Dec 12 05:05:44 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 23:00 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Sunday December 11 2005 20:52, David J. Bakeman wrote:
> > I have a external firewire drive formatted as ext3 under RH7.2.  When I
> > plug it in to my new FC4 machine it complains with the following:
> >
> > FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
> >      Found signature1 0x00000000 signature2 0x00000000 (sector = 1)
> > FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1)
> >     invalid access to FAT (entry 0x00c0000f)
> >     File system has been set read-only
> >
> >
> > I have to manually mount it as ext3 and everything is fine.  I have two
> > other external firewire drives one formatted FAT32 and the other ext3
> > both of these are recognized correctly and automatically mounted.
> > Here's the output from fdisk for the drive that isn't recognized:
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdc1               1       24792   199141708+  83  Linux
> >
> >
> > Any ideas??

Interesting that the error about FAT above is on /dev/sdb1 and you
showed the fdisk output from /dev/sdc.

Are you sure you are looking at the error on the proper drive.?


> When was the last time fsck was run against the partition
> 
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