Could this be a zero-length partition?

[Ron Eggler]

Hi There,

I got a ext3 partition mounted as / and i would like to execute e2fsck -n
/dev/sda2 to check if there's any errors on this partition and this is
what I'm getting:
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /
Could this be a zero-length partition?

What does this mean? The partition is not zero-length.

Thanks for hints and suggestions!
Ron

[Yousuf]

Hi Ron,
This error usually comes when you specify the extended partition
(which is just a box where other logical partitions can reside) as the
argument for fsck. Can you please send a fdisk -ul /dev/sda listing
from your machine. Also some detail on the parititon numbers of root/
home partitions would be useful (you can send /etc/fstab for this)

Regards,
Yousuf A

Post by Ron Eggler
Hi There,
I got a ext3 partition mounted as / and i would like to execute e2fsck -n
/dev/sda2 to check if there's any errors on this partition and this is
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /
Could this be a zero-length partition?
What does this mean? The partition is not zero-length.
Thanks for hints and suggestions!
Ron