adding a new partition - changes to make afterwars.

[hal styli]

hello, can someone please help me...

i have - sorry had - a debian setup with hda5 as ext2 and hda6 as swap.
I used partition magic to add 3 Dos partitions (or slice a big one into 4).

now i have hda7 and hda8 as ext2 and swap respectively.

What can I can do to let deb know i have made the change and react nicely?

I get: bad magic number in super-blockwhile trying to open /dev/hda7 with a suggestion to run e2fsck with an alternate superblock.

When I am let in with root mounted r/o, the mount command shows as
/dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro).

should i simply edit some fstab file or is it more involved. I have a knopppix cd handy...

thanks for any constructive help given
Hal

[Jeroen]

1) Use cfdisk to see how your current partitions are named

2) Edit fstab correctly

3) If you root partition changed number, edit lilo/grub config and re-run it

4) Did you resize any partition and/or add an linux partition? If so, you'll need to 'format' that partition -- make a filesystem on it. It will destroy any current contents though.

[Hal Styli]

1) Use cfdisk to see how your current partitions are named

2) Edit fstab correctly

3) If you root partition changed number, edit lilo/grub config and re-run it

4) Did you resize any partition and/or add an linux partition? If so, you'll need to 'format' that partition -- make a filesystem on it. It will destroy any current contents though.

Thanks, that did it! (no resizing)

Hal