On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> I'm in deep S.....
>
> I have been working on the computer of Her Who Must Be Obeyed, and when
> re-booting, had a problem: No system; had a closer look, I had mixed up the
> primary and secondary IDE cables.
>
> I unmixed them, rebooted, and now the partition with her home dir wont mount,
> she's loosing three weeks email and work and my name is Mud ;-(
>
> The error message I get is
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc(partition)
partition being 1 2 3 5 6 7 etc.
>
> Then it advises me to try e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
> I have tried it, with various block numbers, but to no avail.
>
> Any suggestion before I'm sent to spend the night in the doghouse ?
>
> -The partition shows up correctly with fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> -The HD is still configured in the BIOS as it always has been
>
> I'm at a loss to understand what happened; anyone who can explain/help will
> earn my eternal gratitude for at least ten minute.
You make no mention to what work you have done or undone.? However i see an
iregularity here, it looks to me if you and/or your system is trying to mount
/dev/hdc <-HDC?? /dev/hdcX
e2fsck WILL return the message above, it cant mount a whole disk, it mounts
"partitions" such as /dev/hdc1 2 3 5 6 7 etc.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ron the Frog, in disgrace on the banks of the Paraguay River.
> --
> Genius may have its limitations,
> but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
> -- Elbert Hubbard
> --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
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Regards Richard
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