Hi....I'm writing this in outlook express on my NT box. Why?! Because my
Mandrake 6.1 root filesystem won't mount (so Mandrake won't boot) and won't
even return enough info to e2fsk when it's run, to get worked on. Here's
what it says (I sure wish I could paste this instead of typing it):
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsk with an alternate superblock:
e2fsk -b 8193 <device>
....so when I run (from tomsrtbt or Peanut, I've tried both) 'e2fsk -b 8193
sda7' (or 16385 or 24577....etc.) I get exactly the same error message as
above. I've run the sequence of possible alternate superblock locations up
to a factor of 21, with no luck, just the same error message each time.
So does anybody have any suggestions on what further staeps I might take to
attempt to recover this partition?
Alan
