12-01-2010
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Originally Posted by
al0x
Would changing the filesystem change anything?
Depends entirely on what it's doing. But it doesn't sound like it's booting the normal linux way, there'd be trickery necessary to get a bootable Linux system out of a FAT32 partition.
What files are inside /dev/sdb1 ? I suspect there's a clutter of small inscrutiable files (bootloader stuff) and one great big file(disk image).
When the initrd crashes again, try
cat /proc/filesystems to see what partition types your kernel
really supports. Also try just running
blkid to see what disks it thinks are really disks.
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findfs
FINDFS(8) System Administration FINDFS(8)
NAME
findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID
SYNOPSIS
findfs NAME=value
DESCRIPTION
findfs will search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags
are:
LABEL=<label>
Specifies filesystem label.
UUID=<uuid>
Specifies filesystem UUID.
PARTUUID=<uuid>
Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition tables.
PARTLABEL=<label>
Specifies partition label (name). The partition labels are supported for example for GUID Partition Table (GPT) or MAC partition
tables.
If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout.
The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by
lsblk --fs
partx --show <disk>
blkid
EXIT STATUS
0 success
1 label or uuid cannot be found
2 usage error, wrong number of arguments or unknown option
AUTHOR
findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
enables libblkid debug output.
SEE ALSO
blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)
AVAILABILITY
The findfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
/util-linux/>.
util-linux March 2014 FINDFS(8)