Cannot mount /home on /dev/hda16
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Either when I try to install Gutsy tribe-5 from or simply only boot-up the Desktop-CD, trying to mount my /home, residing on a JFS partition /dev/hda16 on my only PATA HDD in this system, always fails with this misleading and, according to the openSuSE 10.3 installer message, also quite wrong message (here copied from /var/log/syslog):
Aug 26 21:54:47 ubuntu ubiquity: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda16,
Aug 26 21:54:47 ubuntu ubiquity: missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Aug 26 21:54:47 ubuntu ubiquity:
Aug 26 21:54:47 ubuntu ubiquity: In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
Aug 26 21:54:47 ubuntu ubiquity: dmesg | tail or so
Aug 26 21:54:47 ubuntu ubiquity:
I don't know yet about "dmesg | tail or so", so I hade to go with what I found in syslog or what Nautilus tells me in its popup window, when I try to access /home.
From the information openSuSE provides during installation, the quite unexpected problem which I'm hitting here, apparently is an artificial limitation to only 15 partitions the kernel can handle!?!
I currently easily exceed this rather low number of usable partitions.
My ancient IBM OS/2 system, sitting in several flavours on a couple of them (JFS and HPFS), can easily handle that count, so I expect no less from the 2007 version of Ubuntu.
- Why does this ridiculous low partition count exist in the first place?
- What is someone with more than 15 partitions supposed to do, when he wants to use any of them with a Linux system? (and no, repartitioning or juggling Linux partitions around is most definitively out of the question.).
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Booting up with a Knoppix 5.0 CD, it didn't have any problem to have that partition mounted and its contents allocated..
This test confirms, that Gutsy currently is imposing some annoying, artificial limit to supported partitions, starting with hda16 and up.