On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:15, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now > formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount? > > I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I > allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it
Your fstab file does not matter at all in this context, which is to achieve a basic mount of the drives. The only reason an fstab file exists is so that parameters can be passed to mount by a script and approved by root. The main concern right now is, have your drives been corrupted. If mount cannot do a manual operation, then that means it's not seeing what it is supposed to be seeing when you make the attempt. Don't want to worry you but this isn't good. It's still probably something simple, though. To verify that this is or is not the case the next thing is you need to do is comment out everything pertaining to the partitions in question in fstab and start mount attempts manually, because at this point fstab is redundant and is only going to get in your way; at least until you achieve a successful manual mount. After you get rid or disable the relevant entries in fstab, again attempt to mount them xfs. If they won't mount xfs, then boot your 9.1 cdrom and go into rescue mode. NOW attempt to mount xfs. If it still won't go then try to mount them reiser. If that doesn't work... Well, give that a shot and we'll go from there. LX > > correctly, but after a shutdown and unplug (to avoid damage in a > lightning storm) the drives will no longer mount at boot, nor can I > mount them manually. I used them for a few hours, copying 28GBs of data > back and forth without any problems before I had to shutdown. > > The Pertinent lines in my fstab are: > > /dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2 > > Here are the lines from my previously working configuration (before they > were converted to XFS): > > /dev/hdg1 /drive2 reiserfs notail 1 2 > /dev/hdh1 /drive3 reiserfs notail 1 2 > > Any suggestions? -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ������������������������������������������������
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