Formatted meaning you used mke2fs?
BTW, this kind of thing is exactly the reason that having multiple
partitions is a *good* idea.
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Mike Harsh wrote:
> Everytime I boot my system I get an error while it tries to read my last
> logical partition saying the superblock is corrupt. It suggests running
> e2fsck with a different block size which I've tried with no luck. I also
> ran fdisk to check the partition table and made sure it was there and
> setup as linux native. I read an articale found in Linux Gazzette about
> basically the same thing but combined with a "short read" error when
> running e2fsck with a larger block size. One of the suggestions was that
> this happens when a native partition has no filesystem on it yet. There is
> nothing on the partition but it has been formatted (quick format). Any
> ideas?
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