On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:06:52PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: > fdisk will see it as 'type 83 - linux' not as a filesystem. > > There is a way to ascertain what filesystem is the partition but can't > remember. > > What I'd do is do a series of mount command and see the results.
If there's any doubt about what sort of file-system it is, mount with -t auto; that will try all the available filesystems. I thought we were pretty sure this was JFS though. > >>60 seconds later, the prompt still hasn't come back..? > > > >Ok, that's a problem. I'd guess you've got a broken filesystem. Have you > >got a backup of the disk? If not, I'd suggest taking an image of it and > >then using jfs_fsck to see if it can find anything. > > That means the filesystem in the partition is not 'jfs'. Well, it doesn't necessarily mean that. The kernel could be blocking for any one (or more, I suppose) of a number of reasons. What makes you think that this block is the wrong filesystem selection? James. -- "Now, there are no problems only opportunities. However, this seemed to be an insurmountable opportunity." - http://www.surfare.net/~toolman/temp/diagram.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
