Zero-lenght partition

Robert Nichols rnichols42 at comcast.net
Mon Dec 20 23:05:14 UTC 2004


Andrea Carotti wrote:
> Hi all,
>    while rebooting after an hard shutdown (a power supply problem) 
> having the autofsck enabled on boot, I receive this error:
> " fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> read while trying to open /dev/hda2
> Could this be a zero-length partition? "
> 
> Could anyone tell me the best procedure to fix this? I'm a bit scared 

The usual cause of that message is attempting to run fsck on the
extended partition.  You should run fsck on logical partitions
within the extended partition, not on the extended partition itself.

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Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net





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