From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker) Subject: Re: Filesystem trouble Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 15:29:14 GMT
>>>>> On 14 Mar 1993 02:10:42 GMT, rassilon@grits.ai.mit.edu (Brian
>>>>> Preble) said:
bp> I recently installed the SLS release of Linux. All appeared
bp> to go smoothly until I booted after installation. I received
bp> the following error messages:
bp> Minix-fs: magic match failure (or something like that)
Linux looks whether your root file system is a Minix fs and decides it
isn't. That's right, no problems.
bp> EXT-fs: magic match failure
Same with ext fs.
bp> EXT2-FS: Warning: using non-valid partition
Ext2fs now sees your root filesystem and detects that the fs was not
unmounted before the previous shutdown. It couldn't be, as the root
filesystem is never unmounted. Make sure to run the appropriate fsck
once in a while, as you should with any fs, not just ext2fs.
Bas.