Subject: Re: Bad Superblock??
From: Barry Sparenborg (sparenborgb@directvinternet.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 10:36:45 MST
on 3/15/02 10:41 PM, Robert Brandtjen at rob@prometheusmedia.com wrote:
> On Friday 15 March 2002 09:54 pm, Barry Sparenborg wrote:
>> Have tried to use e2fsck to check disk /dev/sdf1 but always get a
>> superblock error. I try the command that it suggests e2fsck -b 8193
>> /dev/sdf1 but get the bad magic number in super block error.
>
> I had that error with an IDE drive on RH 7.2 box with ext3 file system
> enabled - it managed to save the drive and all I ended up with were most of
> the gnome related gui files in the lost+found directory.
>
> I would suggest that you just keep running e2fsck in force mode until it
> fixes, do this from init1, of course.
>
> Just what is the "magic number" anyway?
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