Message when mounting ext4 boot partition, but works.
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Sat Nov 21 13:16:22 UTC 2009
On 21 Nov 2009 at 15:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
To: busybox at busybox.net
Subject: Re: Message when mounting ext4 boot partition, but
works.
Date sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:19:15 +0100
Copies to: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
> On Saturday 21 November 2009 09:06, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > I just did a clean install of Fedora 12, and did a remote backup of the
> > system. I change the grub.conf to default to my g4l option which uses
> > busybox. After it boots, I can remotely access it and mount the boot partition
> > to reset the grub to boot from the default kernel before doing the image
> > backup. Seems Fedora 12 now creates the boot partition as ext4 instead of
> > the older ext2?
> >
> > No problem with mounting the ext4 partition, but it does show the following
> > message.
>
> ... when you run what command exacty?
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/local
In the past, this was the /boot partition and ext2 format, and now with Fedora
12 with a clean install it is now an ext4 partition.
>
> > NTFS signature is missing.
> > Failed to mount '/dev/hda6': Invalid argument
> > The device '/dev/hda6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> > Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> > partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> > NTFS signature is missing.
> > Failed to mount '/dev/hda6': Invalid argument
> > The device '/dev/hda6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> > Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> > partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> >
> > Not sure if I double copied the above or if it happened that way. The partition
> > does get mounted correctly, so not sure why the above message appears? It
> > is only cosmetic.
> --
> vda
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