Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

Hi,

My device doens't show a 2 GB ext3 partition. /dev/mmcblk0p2 is not mounted (not showing up with 'mount' and 'df -h' command or in /proc/mounts).

It is however there in /etc/fstab, but when I try mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 it says:
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk02p on /home failed: Invalid argument.

As cause of that I only have the 256MB of rootfs to install applications :(

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

have you tried rebooting? how did you get your device to such state?

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

yes, rebooting changes nothing ...

After a reboot of my device (sw_rst) I noticed the /home/opt folder was gone... later I discovered this was due to the fact that the partition mounted at /home/ was no longer mounted.

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

I need the output from fstab.

"Invalid argument" means it's trying to mount with a bad option for the filesystem..

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

Thanks for the help , the fstab is still ok

I figured out what was wrong. Apparantly the filesystem was corrupted.

I ran:
fsck /dev/mmcblk0p2

Which stated a lot of errors and fixed things up using the journal of the ext3 filesystem ...

After that I rebooted and now everything is ok again.

I think I had a sw_rst reboot while another process was maybe writing to the partition. In each case the reboot caused the partition to be in a corrupted state. fsck fixed it all.

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

Hmm odd.. The init system should detect this and try to correct for it. Atleast if it's done properly.

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

AFAIK it simply prints into sytem log that /home mount failed. And few lines below it copies default values to /home/user if there is nothing.

See /etc/event.d/rcS-late

I don't see any attempt to fsck /home partition.

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

mmm that needs to be reported in the bug tracker (if not already declared), there is no way a phone for mass market leaves a partition in a corrupted state without trying to fscking it.

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

yes, bugzilla is down for me today, please post here a link if you do report it, if not I will do it and post a link

EDIT: it is due to slow DNS propagation issue, have bugzilla working now (new IP of bugs.maemo.org is 80.248.164.252), I'll report it

EDIT2: reported as https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7784

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

Are you sure this is the right bug? This one is about SIP.

Re: Lost 2GB partition at /home/
 

It looks like there was a bugzilla problem around that time, probably due to the server move. Fanoush's original bug 7784 seems to have been replaced with one about SIP. The only evidence I can find for the old 7784 bug is this thread, https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7708, and the first result on http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=1...meta=&aq=f&oq=