James Gregory wrote:
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?
I do not know. That's why I suggest my way of resolving the problem.
I do not need to justify my procedure just as anyone here does not need to.
If it solves the problem well and good. Otherwise someone else can help.
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