On 01/27/13 17:50, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I opened Palimpsest, which reported the Smart information as "Disk has > a few bad sectors." I unmounted it and ran "e2fsck -p /dev/sdb" which > reported "Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/sdb: > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > filesystem." (It is ext4.) The error message further suggested to run > "e2fsck -b 8193<device>." I have not tried this as I have no idea what > this will do.
Why /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdbN, where N is the partition number? Your disk is almost certainly partitioned. This means that your filesystem lives within a partition. When you used /dev/sdb, you referred to the whole disk. Thus e2fsck did not recognize any filesystem. I suggest using the following command to find out how the disk is partitioned. sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb galen -- Galen Seitz Seitz & Associates [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
