At 11:34 AM -0400 5/7/06, Rickey Moore wrote: >On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 20:54 +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: >> > What type of partition is yours? Mine's an ext2. I'm thinking of running >> > tune2fs to convert it to ext3 to see if that makes a difference. >> >> Mine's ext3. >> >> I have suspicions that the problem lies somewhere further down than >> the filesystem, because the hard disk partition doesn't actually >> appear in sysfs until I run partprobe. >> >> I'm not quite sure what partprobe pokes though. >> >> Are you using LVM? > >THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN!! >I thought I'd been around awhile... never recalling hearing of >'partprobe'. I ran it, and have been having a pile of problems with >udev, and partprobe reveals that the system thinks I have this: > >[root@iam My Downloads]# partprobe -s >/dev/hda: msdos partitions 1 2 >/dev/sda: msdos partitions 1 > >WTF? >I have ext3 partitions and lvm on hda... no wonder udev barfs. How do I >safely fix this?? The boot sequence finds ext3 partitions, and >everything gets mounted as such, or so I beleive. Something got >clobbered during yum upgrade... I suspect. Thanks again for your timely >post. Ric Nothing there to fix. All it said was that the partition table format is msdos and that there are two partitions. "parted /dev/hda print" will show what the partition table says in detail, while "fdisk -l /dev/hda" will show how it was interpreted. Note that my understanding of this is fairly basic and I haven't had to manually edit any partition tables. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
