"Unitialized disk entity" after upgrade to FC7?

[Mark Haney]

Bob St John wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I upgraded from FC6 to FC7 and many applications that I had on FC6 fail
> to start on FC7.
> 
> I apparently have some uninitialized disk partitions:
> 
> /dev/sda1 = / root (EXT3)
> /dev/sda2 = Unmounted Windows XP partition (dual boot system)
> /dev/sda3 = Unmounted EXT3 partition
> /dev/sda4 = Unmounted SWAP partition
> 
> I suspect that /etc/fstabs is important in this case:
> 
> LABEL=/                 /                   ext3    defaults        1 1
> devpts                  /dev/pts            devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm            tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc               proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/sda4               swap                swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> What is the problem and how can I fix it?
> 
> Thanks . . .
> 
> Bob St. John
> 

At first glance it looks like those partitions aren't labeled in fstab, 
indeed a couple of them aren't even in fstab.


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