[TriLUG] filesystem error on upgrade to RH 7.2

[Tanner Lovelace]

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On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:54, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> Having, it seems, less and less in balance to lose, when I
> type
> mount -rw /
> it hangs, leading me back to the power switch.

That would be because it won't mount a dirty filesystem
(that is, it must be fsck'd before it will mount it
read-write... )
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> My hunch is that getting fsck or one of its underlying cousins
> to run may not lead in the right direction, because I suspect
> this is a problem involving the setup of the swap partition
> and/or swap filesystem.

Hmmm... Can you try booting from a floppy based distribution
(or the redhat rescue CD) and try to fix it using that.  If=20
you can get your partition fsck'd and mount it read-write,
you can remove that swap line from the fstab...

> Still, I don't know what I can say at that prompt that will do
> any good.

Good luck.

Tanner
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