On 06/13/2010 11:42 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > Just to be painfully clear as to what I am doing: > (1) power on, hold down shift key > (2) highlight boot option, "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic > (recovery mode)" and press 'e' to edit the commands > (3) from the recovery menu, choose 'root' drop to root shell prompt > (4) I enter my root password and then run fsck /home, which gives the > following output: > # fsck /home > fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 > e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) > fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /home > > 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> > > > I am not sure that this is relevant, but my /dev/sda1 is type ext4
try fsck /dev/sda1 Tony _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech