What is filesystem panic?

[Per Anton Rønning]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Per Anton Rønning wrote:
>   
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>     
>>> Double check that you are accessing the correct device. USB drives
>>> do not always get "assigned" the same device. (It might get assigned
>>> /dev/sdd instead of /dev/sdc for example.) If you are interested in
>>> the reasons for this, it should probably be a separate thread...
>>>
>>> Mikkel
>>>   
>>>       
>> Oh yes, my processor is slow now. a df command shows this:
>> [root at localhost trade]# df
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>                     718841144   8123212 674202912   2% /
>> /dev/sda1               194442     44177    140226  24% /boot
>> tmpfs                  1943548        48   1943500   1% /dev/shm
>> /dev/ram0                15863       728     15135   5% /mnt/rd
>> /dev/sdf1              3985612     53992   3931620   2% /media/disk
>>
>> The JetFlash pen is assigned to sdf1. But do I have to assign it to sdc1
>> for it to work??
>> What consequences does this have?
>>
>> Brgds PAR
>>
>>     
> Nope - but you have to use /dev/sdf instead of /dev/sdc if you want
> fdisk to tell you anything about the drive. This is why you were
> getting the unable to open /dev/sdc error message from fdisk.
>
> Mikkel
>   
Of course!
And this is what now comes out of the woodwork:
fdisk /dev/sdf1 -l
Disk /dev/sdf1: 4089 MB, 4089428992 bytes
126 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7812 * 512 = 3999744 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69737369

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1p1   ?      239347      260940    84344761   69  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(68, 13, 10) logical=(239346, 6, 42)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(260939, 87, 25)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdf1p2   ?      217809      457169   934940732+  73  Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(217808, 54, 38)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(457168, 73, 4)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdf1p3   ?           1           1           0   74  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(0, 41, 32)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 41, 31)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdf1p4          369391      369398       26207+   0  Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(369390, 104, 25)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(369397, 67, 49)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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This seems to be a mess. Is it mendable?

Brgds
PAR