JRH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > Went to boot up, and I got the message that "superblock was missing or > corrupted, run e2fsck" etc etc, and tried to do that, but with no joy. [...] > I haven't lost any data (well, not seriously anyhow), but I'm interested to > know what has gone on! To venture a guess, I would say somehow, your partition table or inode table got corrupted. Check google for more explanations.
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jmandel/mri/superblock.pdf#search=%22superblock%20missing%20or%20corrupt%22 turned up a few hits: http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jmandel/mri/superblock.pdf#search=%22superblock%20missing%20or%20corrupt%22 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/4d6853238a5a7cad?q=superblock+e2fsck+8192&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&%20scoring=r&rnum=9&ic=1 -- RickS "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." -F.D.Roosevelt ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
