G'day all, We're just trying to add a second HDD to our Fedora server. It's not new but recent.
fdisk'd it OK (one single linux partition), then ran mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1, which reported no problems. Then, to check (because we weren't entirely sure about the provenance of the drive) I ran fsck, which reported as follows: e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> Now I'm not sure what a super-block is, and I certainly don't know what a magic number is, and whether a bad one is a serious problem or not! So I don't know what other super-block to try with e2fsck -b. Can anyone suggest how we get around this problem? I'm now more than a little uncertain about putting any data on this drive! Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
