[mdlug] Mounting problems

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Joe Doehler wrote:
> At 06:11 PM 10/23/2009, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
>> Joe Doehler wrote:
>>> Thanks for the link. I dd'd a copy of the drive in question. That
>>> copy too works in the old machine that's running RedHat 7.2 - no
>>> errors. I'll put that copy on the Fedora 10 box and try running fsck
>>> on it as your link suggests, but I am skeptical at the moment. I'll
>>> keep you informed. FYI, trying to mount it read-only, as is, on the
>>> Fedora 10 box did not work either.
>> Did you try running fsck, from the Fedora box, on the partitions before
>> trying to mount?
> 
> No, I did not. I'll do that soon on the copy I made. Since this is a 
> copy, I won't mind if it gets messed up - I can always make another 
> one. Do you have any suggestions about what options fsck should use?
> 
> Joe.

Lokk at the man page for fsck.ext2. My prefered file system is xfs, so
my experience with the ext3 utilities is somewhat limited.

>From a quick look at the manual I would suggest:
   fsck.ext2 -y <partition>

But also, at about this time, I would question wheter you want to
*solve* this problem, or rather work around it. How important it is to
fix *this* filesystem?

Since you had the free disk space to make dd copies, then you could also
have made fresh ext3 fs's that Fedora could use, mounted them (or at
least tried to) in the RH box, and just bulk copied the contents of the
problem fs's to the new ones.

This would be one of several possible work around. There are other
considerations, such as the age and expected usage patterns of the
drives to consider.

Good Luck
Raymond McLaughlin