--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---

[Arnaud M .]

Hello,

i can't debug so i'll just report what occured and give you in attachment the 
several commands i use hoping that they would be useful for you..

i'm using the 2.4.20-k6 kernel version and a testing debian.

i'm using the last version of parted ( i installed it yesterday ).

I resized a FAT32 partition ( /dev/hda1 ) with parted and i deleted /dev/hda2 
with fdisk before toggling the fs into "Linux extended" (85) ..

i tried to mount /dev/hda2 on /mnt/futur_home with :

# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/futur_home/

... but i got this message :

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
       or too many mounted file systems
       (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
       instead of some logical partition inside?)


so i thinked about making it a logical partition inside, but ...

Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 
2434/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19092.937 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031   4996.779  primary   FAT         boot, lba
2       9546.438  19092.875  extended              
5       9546.469   9789.609  logical   linux-swap  
6       9789.640  12299.765  logical   ext2        
7      12299.796  19092.875  logical   ext3        
(parted) mkfs 2 ext2
Warning: Partition is being used.
Ignore Cancel ? ignore

/* i thought the warning message was normal as i read "Makes a file system 
fs-type on partition minor, destroying all data that resides on that partition" 
in parted documentation */

Illegal instruction
les-bonbons:/mnt# parted /dev/hda
Segmentation fault

please have a look on the attachment..

Just ask if you need more information

Best regards,

Arnaud M.

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