Hi On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:46:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi All > > I can't e2fsck my root partition any more - looks seriously like that > partition went belly up on me. e2fsck tells me something like the > superblock could not be read ... > > The Debian install CD (Etch) does not have dumpe2fs - which normally > should yield information of the partition backup superblocks. Also the > CD does not seem to offer the option of installing missing > tools/packages to RAM .. > > Any ideas how to see or recover the superblocks? Tools on the Etch CD > that might help for that? > > Affected machine is a Powerbook5,8a
If you are able to download and burn a CD, trying one of the Lenny beta CDs might help. They have a special rescue mode included. I'm not sure though if dumpe2fs is included. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
