Comment 15 for bug 186711
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| Radu Cristian Fotescu (beranger) wrote | #15 |
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As a reaction to the previous 2 comments (#13 and #14), and as I have been personally frustrated myself with this error related to *buntu's installer unable to reuse an existing JFS /home partition, here's my hint on what it *should* usually do the trick when this happens.
1. Boot the LiveCD of your preferred flavor of *buntu/Mint, or any other LiveCD who has jfsutils -- you'll need either "fsck.jfs" or "jfs_fsck" (it's the same thing).
2. Make sure the JFS partition is *not* mounted.
3. Run whatever of the following two works -- assuming /dev/sda3 is the JFS home partition:
jfs_fsck /dev/sda3
or:
fsck.jfs /dev/sda3
4. Now try to mount the partition -- make sure the mounting point exist or replace it accordingly:
mount -t jfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
If you can cd to the mounted partition and the contents is fine, Ubuquity should be able to install and make use of it (you can umount it back).