Wrong fs type detected

David J. Bakeman dbakeman at comcast.net
Mon Dec 12 19:18:47 UTC 2005


Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 23:00 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
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>>On Sunday December 11 2005 20:52, David J. Bakeman wrote:
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>>>I have a external firewire drive formatted as ext3 under RH7.2.  When I
>>>plug it in to my new FC4 machine it complains with the following:
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>>>FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
>>>     Found signature1 0x00000000 signature2 0x00000000 (sector = 1)
>>>FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1)
>>>    invalid access to FAT (entry 0x00c0000f)
>>>    File system has been set read-only
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>>>I have to manually mount it as ext3 and everything is fine.  I have two
>>>other external firewire drives one formatted FAT32 and the other ext3
>>>both of these are recognized correctly and automatically mounted.
>>>Here's the output from fdisk for the drive that isn't recognized:
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>>>Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes
>>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
>>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>/dev/sdc1               1       24792   199141708+  83  Linux
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>>>
>>>Any ideas??
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>Interesting that the error about FAT above is on /dev/sdb1 and you
>showed the fdisk output from /dev/sdc.
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>Are you sure you are looking at the error on the proper drive.?
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Yea sorry I had connected another drive inbetween the two tests.

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>>When was the last time fsck was run against the partition
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