-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap > > Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical. > (/dev/hda4 it will be) No, this is wrong. A swap partition can be either primary or logical, Linux doesn't care. Also, if swap was a logical partition it would be /dev/hda5, not hda4 (hda4 could possibly be the extended partition containing all logical partitions.) > > Syncing disks. > > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. > > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. > > My first question: why is it happening? Do I have to reboot?? AFAIK, this is normal. Go ahead and reboot, but see below first. > This is ok. You have to reboot to update the partition table, but dont > change the fstab file yet (you can, though) YES change the fstab file first! Otherwise, you'll get errors like these: >> Partition check: >> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed >> Unable to find swap-space signature >> Unable to find swap-space signature What you have now in /etc/fstab tells the system that hda1 is root, and hda2 is swap. However, since you repartitioned, hda1 and hda2 are both linux partitions and hda3 is now swap. But since you forgot to change /etc/fstab, it still looks for hda2 to be swap. Right now, your fstab should look something like this: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 You need to change that to reflect your new setup. For the purposes of this example, i'll assume that hda2 will now be /usr. Change the example to suit. /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2 /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 Note that in the far right column that root has a 1, /usr has a 2, and swap has a 0. This tells the system to fsck hda1 in the first pass (before remounting root rw), hda2 in the second pass (just before doing mount -a), and not to fsck hda3 at all. In general, root should be 1, all other linux partitions should be 2, and all non-linux partitions (swap, windows, etc) should be 0. > Once you boot it up, do mkswap /dev/hda4 > Then swapon Correct except /dev/hda3 instead of hda4. swapon is technically unnecessary if you're going to reboot right away. You should also need to create a filesystem on hda2. "mke2fs /dev/hda2" should be sufficient. You may need to reboot after repartitioning before this will work right! Also, make sure hda2 is umounted before you do this. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8Xobr7M/9WKZLW5AQHw+AQAoA5W4N9R/ahnWGIecmLY6R769Zwh4haa TyQQePGuauTHR5oi5LXybtWLf/7Fdm+iUi8GZhIjqLwkO4h4VRdk/Xuh373Wxr5D Myvm5a/36Z4sC7LtEHN6y6hUfNLtRwAG+n3iGyqpuIUjnYkmPrqmcOTchT+ydq4J YuzHD+sB2V8= =f+Ri -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
