Re: external HDD

Michael Heiming wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc ivan danicic <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Michael Heiming wrote:

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Michael Heiming wrote:

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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 ]


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.

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

Looks fine from here, you could change the last "1" to "0" which
should prevent running fsck.

However, I'd try to run 'fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda3' first from the
rescue CD, you might need to remount the device read-only to allow
this. Then reboot to see if this fixes things. You hopefully have
all patches including kernel for your distro installed?

Do you have the "noauto" Tag in the options of you USB HDD entry
in /etc/fstab? Presuming you made one, which might or not be
needed. Some distro handle (auto) mounting of USB devices through
hotplug/udev. But we don't know your distro/kernel version.

Good luck

Hello Michael, I have changed the 1 into 0 but this made
no difference. The suse rescue didn't like that. I have suse 9.1

A bit old, but should work, most likely you haven't installed a
single patch? ;(

The line in fstab concerning the HDD is
/dev/sda5 /mnt/iomega ext2 defaults 1 2

make that "noauto,defaults"
without the " of course.

Thought you had created ext3? Though it shouldn't matter for
mounting you can mount ext3 as ext2 and vice versa.

Booting continues to fail with "fsck.riserfs /dev/hda3 failed"
It's driving me mad!

Did you try running "fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda3" manually from
rescue CD after remounting read-only? What is the output of
'mount' after booting from rescue media? Please post your
complete fstab in addition, so we can have a look.

Hello Michael, running fsck as above gives
Partition /dev/hda3 is mounted with write permissions,
cannot check it.
Here is the "mount" output:
/dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (ro)

Right here it says /dev/hda3 would be mounted read-only, thus
fsck should work on it!

Presuming from the fact that you didn't answered my question
about patches installed and the fact that almost none ever
installs any patch, you haven't installed a single one?

And perhaps just run into a bug that has been fixed long time
ago...

I'd use some Knoppix or alike to boot, which has fsck.reiserfs
available and try to run it on unmounted /dev/hda3 and see how
this works out. If the suse rescue image is incapable of running
without mounting /dev/hda3.

I'd install all patches available as soon as you can boot up as
usual again.

Good luck

Hello Michael, patches are supposed to be automatically
installed (yast2) but I think there is something wrong there.
It doesn't let me install them manually. I think I shall
have to re-install the operating system, which I hate doing
as the consequences are unpredictable. Many thanks for your
help. I'll post some follow-up in case anyone is interested.
Ivan

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