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suddenly lost ext3 in FC3, on /usr only, but can mount it as ext2
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| seawolf@scssi.org 2005-04-18, 5:46 pm |
| Hi, all
I have been running Fedora Core 3 distrib that I installed a couple of
months ago, upgrading it w/apt-get regularly.
I recently and for no apparent reason (to me) rebooted into a bad
situation where the /usr partition was suddenly not mounted. This, of
course, ensued a slew of problems; but the system booted, after a bunch
of [FAILED] startup processes, and I got some sort of command-line
control, which let me figure out that the only partition not mounted
was /usr.
I naturally tried to remount it manually (relying on the fstab entry
and also by manually issuing "mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /usr"), but got
the "wrong fs type or bad superblock..." error.
I then tried to remount it as ext2 and... succeeded!
The system has had only ext3 since the installation, for every linux
partition (no ext2).
During the bad boot I got errors to the effect that journaling was not
available for the /usr partition...
Would anyone have a clue as to what may have caused this?
And where in the docs would I look for solution? I googled the groups
for similar problems but can't seem to find such?
(I changed "ext3" to "ext2" for /usr in the fstab, and it now boots and
operates "fine", but something tells me I haven't solved my problem)
TIA
andrew
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