Segmentation Fault when accessing partition

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantinos Thoukydides <historiangr at yahoo.com>
Sent: Feb 10, 2005 3:06 PM
To: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault when accessing partition


--- James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Can you run fdisk -l against your drive?

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id
 System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1168     9381928+   c
 W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            1169        9732    68790330    f
 W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            1169        6307    41278986    b
 W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6            6308        9732    27511281    b
 W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id
 System
/dev/hdb1               1        3570    28675993+   c
 W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2   *        3571        3583      104422+  83
 Linux
/dev/hdb3            3584        4865    10297665   8e
 Linux LVM

> 
> Linux might still see the partition as NTFS, not
> FAT32.  
> 
No it's fat32 alright.

> Also, can you completely delete the partition under
> Windows and recreate it as FAT 32?  Your problem
> might be due to PM's handling of the partition and
> might require a complete rebuild of the partition. 
> I always state to remove and rebuild any partition
> 'converted' to NTFS if the need to return to FAT16
> or FAT32 is desired/required.

That's what I was trying to avoid. I hoped there was
another way or I was just doing something wrong. Oh well...

-----James's Reply------

Konstantinos:

Where is your Linux swap partition?  I don't recommend building it in the LVM in case the LVM becomes corrupted you might be able to bring your system up to recover it.

And you are correct, it shows as FAT32 not NTFS.

How are you loading the NTFS driver, as a module or built into the kernel.  The NTFS driver might be the cause of the problem.  Also, in your fstab, set the file type from auto to vfat and see if that helps.

James McKenzie
      
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