"Unitialized disk entity" after upgrade to FC7?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Mon Nov 19 23:22:10 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:03 -0500, Bob St John wrote:
> 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?
Why are you trying to use e2label on an NTFS filesystem? That won't
work. You need ntfslabel ("yum install ntfsprogs").
> 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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