Well after another attempt at destroying the system I have discovered that the
partition in question is mostly not the partitioning separating /dev/hda5
and /boot which is a ext3 file system but the partition separates hda1 which
is what ever Windows PX is and /home/trunk/Common_Data which is vfat.
Well, anyway, it was that way before I tried to fix it today.
Boy I do not like Mandrake 9.2. What a crop of !@#$%^ compared to Mandrake
9.1. The installation program is simply impossible to configure as you can
not read anything.
Frank
> The partition in question (/dev/hda5) is a vfat partition. You don't run
> e2fsck on that kind of partition. In fact, I don't know what you can run
> on a vfat partition to straighten it out, which is why we only got that
> far in doing the recovery at Dunedin.
>
> Paul
>On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:11 am, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:05:28PM -0400, SOTL wrote:
> > Actually this is Mandrake 9.1 being ran as root.
> >
> > On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:57 am, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
> > > It could be that your kernel doesnt have support for vfat anymore, are
> > > you trying this from knoppix?
> >
> > No
> >
> > > Or are you using the recovery kernel?
> >
> > Not sure
> >
> > > You also could try 'fsck'.
> >
> > Warning message: Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause Severe
> > filesystem damage.
> > Do you want to continue (y/n)?
> > Action aborted by myself by use of No answer. Sorry can not risk the
> > potential
> > failure.
>
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