Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Bob Tracy - TDS) | Subject | AHA-1522 vs. partition tables -- followup | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:30:37 -0600 (CST) |
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Just for grins and giggles, I fired up fdisk to take a look at the partition table prior to shutting down (to reboot on 2.1.11). Lo and behold, the table was trashed in the usual way :-(. This struck me as weird because I've dutifully rebooted the machine each time per fdisk's instructions after patching the partition table, and each time on the reboot, everything was fine.
Anyway... Found the table trashed prior to shutting down, so I patched it in the usual manner then did the 'shutdown -r'. Everything came up clean, and so far, there has been no further munging of the partition table. I don't know quite what to make of this, but I'll keep an eye on things and if the corruption shows up again, maybe I'll have a better idea what's causing it. For now, the "evidence" suggests that the table patching I was doing wasn't "taking" for some reason: rofs semantics being applied incorrectly (prior patch attempts were made with the root filesystem mounted readonly), cacheing, <insert-your-guess-here>. Whatever...
If I've overlooked something obvious, I'm sure it will be pointed out to me :-).
-- Bob Tracy | "The gene pool could use a little chlorine." AFIWC/AFCERT | -- Unknown rct@merkin.csap.af.mil |
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