2.1.6x mount problem(?)

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (linux@bero-online.ml.org)
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:18:50 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual paglinux@bero-online.ml.org


There seems to be a problem in 2.1.6[67] (maybe earlier, as well)
mounting.
Sometimes (not always, and without a pattern I can recognize), I'm getting
hangs when trying to mount an ext2 partition located in an extended
partition.

Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 779 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 261 1052320+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 262 262 779 2088576 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 262 262 521 1048288+ 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda6 522 522 779 1040224+ 83 Linux native

Command (m for help): q
ufp:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /usr/X11R6.3

At this point, the process sometimes hangs infinitely (sometimes it
simply works); I can't even kill or kill -9 it from a different tty; /usr2
is not mounted. (/dev/hda1 is a Windoze 95 partition, hda5 is an NT
partition, hda6 is a Linux partition; I'm booting Linux from /dev/sda1 (so
no hangs at boot time).)

Any ideas about this? (Aside from removing Windoze 95 and NT - I know that
would be a good idea, but I can't do it until there's a good DVE program
for Linux...)

LLaP
bero