"Adam C. Siepel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Fsck told me that I had a bad "magic number" in the superblock for
> /dev/hda6, and recommended running e2fsck -b 8193, to attempt to get to
> some kind of backed-up version of the superblock (I didn't really
> understand this). E2fsck (-b 8193) gave me the exact same message,
> including the recommendation to run itself with the same option. Sensing
> the possibility of an infinite recursion, I decided to bail.
> that later (probably need to get Partition Magic and do some resizing of
Not familiar with the specific working of cfdisk but it sound like you
moved the boundaries of the /usr partition throwing off all inode
address etc.
Its not likely, but if you have a readout of fdisk -l or cfdisk that
displays the original setup, then you can rebuild it to the same
beginning and ends as the original, reboot and it should be ok.
fdisk -l looks like:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 231 931360+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 232 315 338688 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 316 993 2733696 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 316 326 44320+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 327 644 1282144+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 645 720 306400+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 721 825 423328+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 826 876 205600+ 83 Linux
So with that in front of you you can set the sizes the same.
Barring that. Get the application called "gpart" which is supposed to
be able to guess a partion tables setup and rebuild it.
It did work great for me when I butchered a dos disk. "gpart" rewrote
it with no problem.
It is alpha software though so beware. Be ready to possibly lose
your installation and have to reinstall. Any config stuff you can
get to should be backed up and put in a safe place. (maybe on the
dos partition)
But better yet, on a different machine. You could even tar an gzip
then put it in the mail as an attachment. Download it when running again.
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
