On Mon, 5 May 2008, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:53 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > FC8 keeps telling me bad magic number > > in superblock and puts me in repair mode. > > Knoppix likes the partition just fine. > > It's fsck declares it clean. > > FC8's fsck declares it has a bad magic number. > > FC8 used to like it, too. > > I copied /home/* to it under FC8. > > Knoppix can read the result, as could FC8. > > I don't recall you saying how you copied /home over. A file copy, a > disc block copy, something else? "dd"ing a partition between drives > with different sizes might be a cause of your troubles. As root: cp -a /home/* . > > Something I'd forgotten before repartitioning /dev/sda > > is that I had a swap partition on it. > > You can repartition and create a swap partition, or you could add a swap > file to an existing partition. > > > FC8 now complains that it can't find the resume partition or > > something. The partitition that it complains about, the now absent > > swap partition, hasn't been listed in fstab for several reboots. > > If you don't intend to hibernate (suspend to disc) and resume, then you > can ignore the warning about not being able to find the resume partition > (which is the swap partition). When it was there it was *a* swap partition. There was one on each disk. > Resuming makes use of the configuration in the /boot/initrd*img file to > find the partition to resume from. The fstab file provides the swap > location for the booted OS. > > You'd have to remake the initrd file to get resuming to work, which > means using the mkinitrd command, or installing a new kernel (which will > make a new initrd file as part of the installation process). Or provide > a resume=/dev/sda1 (adjust to suit your system) parameter in the grub > file for where the swap partition is located. I don't think you can > refer to a swap file, there. Until I get things fixed, I'd like to make as few changes as are necessary to distinguish between problems and between problems and nonproblems. If the resume complaint isn't actually a problem, can I just omit resume= to make fedora quit looking? > See mkswap, swapon & mkinitrd man files, and the kernel-parameters.txt > file in the kernel documentation. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
