[MPlayer-users] Help! XFree86 4.1.0 crashing when...

[Gábor Lénárt]

Oh sorry ... so hdc1 is swap and hdc2 is corrupted because of swap?
I thing this can be caused by:

1. wrong partition table (overlaping partitions?)
2. repartitioned harddisk without running mkswap again

or something similar I'm only guessing


On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 09:08:22PM +0530, Dr. C. Mondal wrote:
> 
>   > I has my suspicions on the VM management of Linux.
>   > 
>   > I got the first partition of my extra HD configured as swap.
>   > /dev/hdc2               /HDC2               ext2    defaults            0 0 
>   > Now I find that the superblock is completely corrupted and the disk is
>   > no longer accessible.
>   > It could be a HD problem, but before my last boot I could access inner
>   > directories but not the root and top level directories on that disk.
> 
>   ARGHHHH! I hope you're joking!! PLEASE. You can use a partition as swap
>   partition or as file system (like ext2). If you use a partition as swap
>   space OF COURSE it will be overwritten by swapped data! It's the normal
>   behaviour for the first time when notion of 'swap partition' born.
> 
>   - Gabor