@Andrew Thank you!
It appears this bug report meets the criteria for:
-Confirmation
This bug's status will be raised to "Confirmed"
Thank you.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: volumeid
Hi,
Here's the issue:
I'm running Feisty with the latest updates.
During the boot it will come up to "Checking local filesystems" at which
point it will try and do a check on /dev/sda3, which has fstab entry as follows:
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=ef5542e4-9a86-4504-a4f0-1edc56bc30aa /home reiserfs defaults 0 2
Unfortunately, upon boot, I get this (/var/log/fsck/checkfs):
- Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
+ Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
Tue Mar 18 13:38:16 2008
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Failed to open the device 'UUID=ef5542e4-9a86-4504-a4f0-1edc56bc30aa': No
such file or directory
-
fsck died with exit status 8
Tue Mar 18 13:38:16 2008
----------------
+ At this point, it drops to a maintenence shell with a very screwy path
+ (just /bin or something useless like that).
- At this point, it drops to a maintenence shell with a very screwy path (just
/bin or something useless like that).
-
-
- The problem was that the partition used to be a swap partition, and
mkreiserfs did not overwrite the first 64 KB of the partition. Hence, the
swapspace header was left untouched, even though at offset 0x10000 a reiserfs
header was found.
-
+ The problem was that the partition used to be a swap partition, and
+ mkreiserfs did not overwrite the first 64 KB of the partition. Hence,
+ the swapspace header was left untouched, even though at offset 0x10000 a
+ reiserfs header was found.
Running sudo blkid /dev/sda3 will report:
/dev/sda3: UUID="a1a4ee27-950c-4439-9ce8-e69b4795c5c3" TYPE="reiserfs"
Running blkid reports the correct value; running vol_id reports a swap
partition with UUID=ef5542e4-9a86-4504-a4f0-1edc56bc30aa
-
IMHO, vol_id should check for other filesystem headers first and they
should override whatever swap signature found. If the swap partition was
actually being used, wouldn't the use overwrite whatever filesystem
header is there?
+ TO REPRODUCE:
+ -format a partition (as swap)
+ -format it (do not clear as reiserfs)
+ -run vol_id (to identify partition)
+ -it will return type swap
+
Thanks,
Andrew
** Changed in: reiserfsprogs (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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