Re: Recognizing a new partition

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:18:58 -0500

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:23:58 -0500, CWO4 Dave Mann wrote:

> I used qtparted and made sure hdb3 is really ext3 and formatted. All OK
> there.
>
> Cold reboot (from my old Big Iron days, load in the stack of Cold Boot cards
> in the Honeywell 6600 system reader and boot up .. only took a couple of
> hours and 5,000 cards ...)

Yup. Don't you mean a CDC-6600? I remember when they hit the
street. I had a Honeywell <big-mother/> too, as well as a DDC-116
sixteen bit mini that I used to do missle telemetry: no screen, no
keyboard, just lights and switches. We don' need no steenkin' GUI!

> Boot messages showed same hdb3 message -- too many file system, not the
> right stuff, etc.

A few thoughts come to mind:

1) Can you mount it manually?

        # mount /dev/hdb3

   What is output and what shows up in "/var/log/messages"?

2) What is in the partition? Could you trash it and use fdisk(8) and
   mkfs(8) to reformat it? I'm not sure I trust anything with a GUI
   ;-)

Hang in there, dude, we'll get there.