Need to fix badly-mounted partition.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 3/20/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> > When I fired up qtparted to do some work on my ~/music partition, I
> > get this in the console:
> > Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/hda
> > Error: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted!  You should e2fsck.
> > Modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption.
> > Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/hda
> >
> > I don't want to screw anything up, so what would be the advisable
> > course of action? Thank you in advance.
>
> umount the partition.  If you can't umount the partition go to single user
> mode, and umount it.  Then fsck the partition.
>
> However, I just have to ask why you're using an ext2 partition these days.
> At _least_ convert it to ext3 - it's just a matter of adding the journal.
> Then if your filesystem doesn't get properly shut down, the journal will be
> processed on restart to keep your filesystem clean.
> --
> derek
>

It most definatly is an ext3 partition.
root at ety:~# cat /etc/fstab | grep hda3
/dev/hda3 /home/dotancohen/music ext3
defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,nouser 0 2
root at ety:~#

Dotan Cohen
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