Re: external HDD

Michael Heiming wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc ivan <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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In comp.os.linux.misc ivan danicic <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
On 2006-10-07, ivan danicic <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Heiming wrote:

[ problems accessing USB hd ]

You want to run to generate ext3:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda5

Or what your distro provides.

Good luck

Hello Michael, thanks, I have done what you suggested and it
all ran smoothly BUT now it won't let me boot up. Perhaps this
has nothing to do with the above, but I get the message:
"partition /dev/hda3 is mounted with write permissions,cannot
check it." Then fsck gives "fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda3 failed
(status 0x19).Run manually!" :-( Ivan

Did you modify "/etc/fstab" and perhaps made some mistake? I'd
boot to single user mode or from rescue media, mount "/" of your
distro and check fstab /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab per default on
RH/Fedora while using the rescue image and it should be mounted
already. Check the docs of your distro.

Personally do not use or recommend reiserfs, but as it is a
journalizing fs it shouldn't need fsck during usually operation at
all. My guess is some mistake in your fstab.

Good luck

Hello Michael, all your suggestions were correct and the HDD
works fine now; many thanks. I can now only boot up from a
suse rescue disk. Can you suggest any change in this line
from the fstab:
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
?
Ivan

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