----- 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- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
