Hey James, The fdisk output looks okay to me. What steps did you take in preparing the drive? Since you are only using it for a swap drive, have you tried repartitioning/mkfs'ing again to see what happens?
John Hebert --- James Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After mounting any partition other than swap on a > new 30GB drive I get the > following error repeatedly: > > Oct 30 18:29:08 peach kernel: ll_rw_block: device > 03:42: only 512-char > blocks implemented (4096) > Oct 30 18:30:06 peach last message repeated 504 > times > Oct 30 18:30:21 peach last message repeated 72 times > > Currently, I'm only using a portion of the drive for > swap space, but would > like to utilize the rest of the drive, I would > appreciate any insight some > of you might have. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdb > > Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id > System > /dev/hdb1 1 4 32098+ 83 > Linux > /dev/hdb2 5 37 265072+ 82 > Linux swap > /dev/hdb3 38 3649 29013390 83 > Linux > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# cat /etc/fstab > /dev/hda9 / ext2 > defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 > defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdc1 /home > ext2 > defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda8 /tmp ext2 > defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 > defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda6 /var ext2 > defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdb2 swap swap > defaults 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto > user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 > none /proc proc > defaults 0 0 > none /dev/pts > devpts mode=0622 0 0 > filesvr.wec.wnet:/export/samba/files /usr/filesvr > nfs > exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
