Re: [SLE] Baffling permissions

On Saturday 28 December 2002 07:32, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Robert Stia writes:

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On Thursday 26 December 2002 08:52, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

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"Bob S." writes:

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Just created two new partitions on my Linux HD. Did that with Partion Magic 5 from DOS. This made two ext2 partitons. Am running SuSE 8.0 Q #1 How do I convert these partitions to ext 3 and do I need to do that?

It may be safer if you use the Partitioner module of YaST2 to create ext3 file systems on these partitions.

Thanks for that info. They are now ext3. Strange problem though, If I designate them as ext3 in fstab, when I reboot, the boot fails with fsck complaining about them. Then I have to go back into fstab and restore them to "auto". Works this way, but curious as to why.

How did you create them? Write a recipe how to reproduce the problem.

As stated in my first paragraph, I created the partitions in Partition Magic. That created them as ext2 filesystems. At your suggestion I went int Yast2, Partitioner, found them as they were created, and simply changed them from ext2 to ext3 filesystems. Going back into Partition Magic to see what happened, I find an error code for the entire HD, something about partition boundries. Maybe I will just have to delete those partitions and start over again all from Yast2 Partioner. Reluctant to do that though because they are working and I already have data in them. Bob S.