"Unitialized disk entity" after upgrade to FC7?
Bob St John
bob at stjohn.name
Mon Nov 19 23:03:10 UTC 2007
Peter,
Thanks for the pointer. I tried to use e2label to label all partitions
and got:
bash-3.2# e2label /dev/sda2 ntfs
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
So I think I've got a more complex problem. Any thoughts?
Bob St. John
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:27 -0500, peter volsted wrote:
> Bob
>
> In your on-disk version of 'Release Notes' find the URL for the updated
> online version and read about the necessity to label your partitions and
> correct your fstab.
>
> kind regards
>
> peter
>
> > Bob St John wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I upgraded from FC6 to FC7 and many applications that I had on FC6 fail
> > to start on FC7.
> >
> > I apparently have some uninitialized disk partitions:
> >
> > /dev/sda1 = / root (EXT3)
> > /dev/sda2 = Unmounted Windows XP partition (dual boot system)
> > /dev/sda3 = Unmounted EXT3 partition
> > /dev/sda4 = Unmounted SWAP partition
> >
> > I suspect that /etc/fstabs is important in this case:
> >
> > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> > /dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> > What is the problem and how can I fix it?
> >
> > Thanks . . .
> >
> > Bob St. John
> >
> >
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