----- Original Message -----
From: Renaud OLGIATI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 28, 2001 6:55 am
Subject: Au secours, je suis dans la M..... (was Superblock adresses ?)

> 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
> 

One doubt - how does it crib about /dev/hdc. You said that you
had interchanged the primary and secondary IDE cables. Those will
be your /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, right ? What is your /dev/hdc ?
Does it contain the partition on which the user's home-dir resides ?

> Then it advises me to try e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> 
> I have tried it, with various block numbers, but to no avail.
> 

If you could report the messages that e2fsck spewed, we could have
a look at it.

> 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
> 

What is the configuration of the machine ? /dev/hdc seems to be
existing. What is it ?

I hope people here will be able to help you out from the information
you come up with.

-Sanchet-

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