[PLUG] no more /dev/hda6

[Mark Martin]

On Thursday 04 September 2003 14:17, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
> Doh! I guess I should read the message more carefully (and turn my brain
> on). You won't have a fsck.swap because you don't fsck swap partitions. Try
> fdisking the drive to see what is really in the partition table. Does hda6
> exist? If not, then it maybe something old that is left over in you fstab
> file. If it does exist, you might still try reformatting it.
>
> Garl
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grigsby, Garl
> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:10 PM
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > Subject: RE: [PLUG] no more /dev/hda6
> >
> >
> > I was thinking you could just replace the fsck.swap from
> > another running machine, but in the mean time you can just
> > reformat the swap partition (mkswap /dev/hda6) and then turn
> > the swap partition on (swapon -a).
> >
> > Garl
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mike De La Mater [mailto:mikedela at ipns.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:59 PM
> > > To: PLUG general list
> > > Subject: [PLUG] no more /dev/hda6
> > >
> > >
> > > I've got a remote server that I visited today. It was running
> > > very badly
> > > and I couldn't figure it out. After an hour, I went for a reboot.
> > >
> > > On reboot, I discovered that it did not think it still had
> >
> > a /dev/hda6
> >
> > > swap partition. dmseg shows:
> > >
> > > Partition check:
> > >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> > >  hdb: [PTBL] [1247/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is
> >
> > recommended
> >
> > > EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is
> >
> > recommended
> >
> > > EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is
> >
> > recommended
> >
> > > EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is
> >
> > recommended
> >
> > > The system has been up for a year or so, maybe two. I ran:
> > > # fsck /dev/hda6
> > > fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> > > fsck: fsck.swap: not found
> > > fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/hda6
> > >
> > > What do I do next? I have current backups, but I don't want
> > > to trash the
> > > partition table.
> > >
> > > I'm looking to see how to find fsck.swap, it seems to be missing
> > > somehow...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike De La Mater
> > > Small Business Networks and Consulting
> > > 503-702-6749
> > > mikedela at ipns.com

Mike,

Another possibility that you might want to consider is that the drive is 
failing.  You might want to check your logs for warnings and errors when 
attempting to do I/O on the drive.  If it is failing, you'll want to move 
everything off of it and onto a replacement drive a.s.a.p.  Drive failures 
are the most frequent hardware failures and they happen more often than most 
people would expect.

Mark
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