"Unitialized disk entity" after upgrade to FC7?

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:03 -0500, Bob St John wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. I tried to use e2label to label all partitions
> and got:
> 
> bash-3.2# e2label /dev/sda2 ntfs
> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
> 
> So I think I've got a more complex problem. Any thoughts?

Why are you trying to use e2label on an NTFS filesystem?  That won't
work.  You need ntfslabel ("yum install ntfsprogs").

> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:27 -0500, peter volsted wrote:
> > Bob
> > 
> > In your on-disk version of 'Release Notes' find the URL for the updated 
> > online version and read about the necessity to label your partitions and 
> > correct your fstab.
> > 
> > kind regards
> > 
> > peter
> > 
> > >  Bob St John wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I upgraded from FC6 to FC7 and many applications that I had on FC6 fail
> > > to start on FC7.
> > >
> > > I apparently have some uninitialized disk partitions:
> > >
> > > /dev/sda1 = / root (EXT3)
> > > /dev/sda2 = Unmounted Windows XP partition (dual boot system)
> > > /dev/sda3 = Unmounted EXT3 partition
> > > /dev/sda4 = Unmounted SWAP partition
> > >
> > > I suspect that /etc/fstabs is important in this case:
> > >
> > > LABEL=/                 /                   ext3    defaults        1 1
> > > devpts                  /dev/pts            devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > > tmpfs                   /dev/shm            tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > > proc                    /proc               proc    defaults        0 0
> > > sysfs                   /sys                sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > > /dev/sda4               swap                swap    defaults        0 0
> > >
> > > What is the problem and how can I fix it?
> > >
> > > Thanks . . .
> > >
> > > Bob St. John
> > >
> > >   
> 
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