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Re: mounting XFS fails

To: Gerwin Brill <brill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mounting XFS fails
From: Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Jul 2001 20:07:40 -0700
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3B521BF9.72879C44@informatik.uni-bonn.de>
References: <3B521BF9.72879C44@informatik.uni-bonn.de>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On 16 Jul 2001 00:40:57 +0200, Gerwin Brill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to mount  an old IRIX 5.x disk using both your current kernel
> patch and the xfs enabled kernel souces (kernel 2.4.6). In all cases i
> get "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, or too many
> mounted file systems" when trying to mount with "mount -t xfs /dev/sdb1
> /dir" 
> 
> xfs_repair can not find secondary superblock, 
> 
> fdisk gives the following informations on the disk
> 
> 
> ----- partitions -----
>    Device  Info      Start       End   Sectors  Id  System
> /dev/sdb1  boot         5      3424   1846576   a  SGI xfs
> /dev/sdb2  swap      3425      3804    205408   3  SGI raw
> /dev/sdb9               0         4      2620   0  SGI volhdr
> /dev/sdb11              0      3804   2054604   6  SGI volume
> ----- bootinfo -----
> Bootfile: /unix
> ----- directory entries -----
>  0: sgilabel   sector    2 size     512
>  1: sash       sector    4 size  140800
>  2: ide        sector  558 size  977920
> 
> Is there anything obvious I am missing? 
> 
> Regards
> Gerwin


Did you remember to enable SGI partition support in the kernel config? I
don't think it's enabled by default. That's all I can think of. Hope
that helps.

-Walt



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