Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:12:07 -0400 (EDT)


On 16 Jun 1998, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
>
> > Here is an update. It might point to the problem. If I don't set up
> > a swap drive, the problem doesn't occur. My swap partition is /dev/sdc2,
> > not shared with anything, while my root file-system is /dev/sdc1.
>
> > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdc1 * 1 1 255 2048256 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sdc2 256 256 288 265072+ 83 Linux native
> > /dev/sdc3 289 289 553 2128612+ 83 Linux native
>
> Try setting the Id of /dev/dsc2 to 82, Linux swap instead of 83, Linux
> native. Perhaps mkswap'ing it afterwards is a good idea, too.
>
I can certainly do this, but it's not even used by the kernel nor
even mkswap.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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