Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:38:34 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-pre1-ac1: Filesystem panic attempting to mount ext3 |
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Hi,
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:13:27AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> the problem appeared on the first partition of an ide > IBM-DHEA-36481 with one fat partition on it. I repartioned > the device (4 primaries) and "mke2fs -j" three of them. > > Than i tried to mount the newly created filesystems and got > this in syslog: > > Sep 1 08:47:32 steel kernel: FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Which version of e2fsprogs?
> Assuming that some garbage was left on the disk event after mke2fs, > i did "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd1 bs=512", which cured the problem, > after being followed by mke2fs.
mke2fs from older versions of e2fsprogs didn't clear out all the filesystem and md signatures on a new filesystem.
The right way to avoid this is to tell the kernel to mount the fs as ext2 or ext3 explicitly, not to rely on the fs-type autodetection in mount().
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