Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:59:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:59:36 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.134.213.6]:61968 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:59:35 -0400 To: Alex Riesen Cc: linux-kernel , sct@redhat.com, akpm@zip.com.au, adilger@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: 2.4.20-pre1-ac1: Filesystem panic attempting to mount ext3 References: <20020901071327.GA404@steel> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 02:02:59 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20020901071327.GA404@steel> Message-ID: <87k7m5hccc.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 24 Alex Riesen writes: > Hello, > > the problem appeared on the first partition of an ide > IBM-DHEA-36481 with one fat partition on it. I repartioned > the device (4 primaries) and "mke2fs -j" three of them. [...] > > Umount produced something as well: > > Sep 1 08:47:54 steel kernel: FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. > Sep 1 08:47:54 steel kernel: Found signature1 0x0 signature2 0x0 sector=1. > > Assuming that some garbage was left on the disk event after mke2fs, > i did "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd1 bs=512", which cured the problem, > after being followed by mke2fs. It's problem of fatfs, and I think it's fixed in 2.5 series. I'll try to back porting the part of fatfs of 2.5 series. -- OGAWA Hirofumi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/