Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 11:36, SW wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> > I'm going to take a shot in the dark, and guess that you formatted the
> > drive as ext2, instead of ext3.  Try changing the ext3 entry to ext2, and
> > remounting.
>
> Ok, I tried that and I get the following warning:
>
> EXT2-fs warning (device ide2(33,0)); ext2_read_super: mounting ext3
> filesystem as ext2
>
> Then I tried to mv a 250MB file from the /dev/hde drive to my /home
> partition and the server just came to a complete stand still. Server load
> was at almost 20 when I stopped the mv task.

What's in /var/log/messages when this happened ?

> > Conversely, you could try "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hde" to format the drive in
> > ext3, and try mounting it with your fstab the way it is.
>
> This will destroy all data correct?

Yes.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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