by I am having some difficulties with the partioning of my disk using the
Slackware 1.2.0 distribution. Can anyone fill me in on what is happening
here and what I can do about it?
My system is a 486DX2-66 with an IDE Western Digital 540MB drive.
The first time I boot I get file system errors detected and 'fsck' runs
and finds a whole pile of errors near the end of the partition even though
I did a clean shutdown. These get fixed then I must reboot.
When I boot the second time, I get the following errors :
EXT2-fs error (device 3/2): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
blocks count for group 49, stored - 7930, count = 0
EXT2-fs error (device 3/2): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
blocks count in superblock, stored = 336396, counted = 328446
Even -with- these errors the system seems to run fine.
Just for reference, the information displayed when I display my disk
partitions are as follows :
opus:/tmp# fdisk
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1048.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with some software.
Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 210 105808+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 * 211 211 1023 409752 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
opus:/tmp# exit
Another problem I encountered is that when I attempted to configure a swap
partition on the remainder of the drive (as /dev/hda3) I got a "physical
does not equal logical" type of error. I selected 1023 as the start
cylinder and 1048 as the ending cylinder. Any suggestions as to what was
wrong with -that- choice?
Thanks for any assistance anyone might be able to give. :)