Comment 7 for bug 203704

Awesome! Thanks for following up!

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Evan Peck <email address hidden>wrote:

> @Andrew Thank you!
>
> It appears this bug report meets the criteria for:
> -Confirmation
> This bug's status will be raised to "Confirmed"
> Thank you.
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> Binary package hint: volumeid
>
> Hi,
>
> Here's the issue:
>
> I'm running Feisty with the latest updates.
>
> During the boot it will come up to "Checking local filesystems" at which
> point it will try and do a check on /dev/sda3, which has fstab entry as
> follows:
> # Entry for /dev/sda3 :
> UUID=ef5542e4-9a86-4504-a4f0-1edc56bc30aa /home reiserfs defaults 0 2
>
> Unfortunately, upon boot, I get this (/var/log/fsck/checkfs):
> - Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
> + Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
> Tue Mar 18 13:38:16 2008
>
> fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> Failed to open the device 'UUID=ef5542e4-9a86-4504-a4f0-1edc56bc30aa': No
> such file or directory
> -
>
> fsck died with exit status 8
>
> Tue Mar 18 13:38:16 2008
> ----------------
>
> + At this point, it drops to a maintenence shell with a very screwy path
> + (just /bin or something useless like that).
>
> - At this point, it drops to a maintenence shell with a very screwy path
> (just /bin or something useless like that).
> -
> -
> - The problem was that the partition used to be a swap partition, and
> mkreiserfs did not overwrite the first 64 KB of the partition. Hence, the
> swapspace header was left untouched, even though at offset 0x10000 a
> reiserfs header was found.
> -
> + The problem was that the partition used to be a swap partition, and
> + mkreiserfs did not overwrite the first 64 KB of the partition. Hence,
> + the swapspace header was left untouched, even though at offset 0x10000 a
> + reiserfs header was found.
>
> Running sudo blkid /dev/sda3 will report:
> /dev/sda3: UUID="a1a4ee27-950c-4439-9ce8-e69b4795c5c3" TYPE="reiserfs"
>
> Running blkid reports the correct value; running vol_id reports a swap
> partition with UUID=ef5542e4-9a86-4504-a4f0-1edc56bc30aa
>
> -
> IMHO, vol_id should check for other filesystem headers first and they
> should override whatever swap signature found. If the swap partition was
> actually being used, wouldn't the use overwrite whatever filesystem
> header is there?
>
> + TO REPRODUCE:
> + -format a partition (as swap)
> + -format it (do not clear as reiserfs)
> + -run vol_id (to identify partition)
> + -it will return type swap
> +
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> ** Changed in: reiserfsprogs (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
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