On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 03:16, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:55:58 +0800
> Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > say.. one of my removable disks has an extended partition namely
> >
> > p1 p2 < p5 >
> >
> > If I were to click on sda2 (under Gnome's My computer) it would hang the
> > whole system.
>
> The whole system, or just the Gnome desktop? Can you still kill X11 by
> pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or switch to a text console?
>
> If the whole system is affected,
Yeah.. Basically is..
> a filesystems probing routine could hang.
> If so, do you have some "strange" filesystems compiled in your kernel?
> Check the output of " grep -v nodev /proc/filesystems " ? The filesystems
> apperar in the order in which they are probed.
grep -v nodev /proc/filesystems
reiserfs
ext3
ext2
iso9660
udf
xfs
ntfs
vfat
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