On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:39:00 -0200 "Alexander Gieg"
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> > > I've attempted to boot with a diskette, and tried to manually mount
> > > the fs, because I know that there is another tables on the partition,
> > > but I don't know the 'mount' program, as the ext2-fs, *so* well.
> >
> > Ok, to mount an ext2 filesystem:
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/<partition> <mountpoint>
> > From what I see above, your partition should be /dev/hdb1. A typical
> > mountpoint is /mnt.
>
> I tried this, but its results was an error message. :-(
Looks like it's verty f**cked'up then...
You linux root fs is on the first partition of the second hard drive
right ? Its device is /dev/hdb1 right ?
> > But beware, don't try to mount is without fsck'ing it.
> > Try, before:
> > e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1
> > And see what it says.
>
> The only boot disk that I have is the one of Debian Installation.
> Do you believe that its root disk hasn't the e2fsck program? Can
> you send this program attached in a reply, or say where can I find
> it? I'll mount my W95 partition with the program in it, and will
> attempt to use it...
Mmmh. I've sent it to you in a separate message (no need to send this
to the lists). I'm not 100% sure it will work as this is Debian 1.2's
e2fsck, there might be some library problems. If it doesn't work,
email me and I'll make you a statically linked version.
> > If it cannot fix the problems, then you'll have to use an
> > alternate superblock, but that's another story.
>
> Can you tell me how to do it? I think the problem is in the
> first superblock, but don't know how to use another superblocks.
Use the -b option on the command line. SuperBlock backups are stored
every 8192 blocks (if you did format it normally, but I guess you
did).
You will want to:
e2fsck -b <superblock> -f /dev/hdb1
The -f forces the check.
You can try superblock=1 (will do the same as without the -b),
superblock=8193, etc... (yes is starts at 1).
If you've got a small root fs, and got some spare room somewhere,
make a copy of the fs. In case something goes wrong, you'll be able
to restart from scratch.
To do this, mount your spare space on /mnt and do:
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/copy-of-root-fs bs=1k
Be sure you've got enough room...
> Now, a stupid question :-) How can I check that everything is
> ok? I don't have books about Linux or Unix, and the little
> things that I learned was with the 'man' command. With my poor
> english, that was a true "Mission: Impossible" ;-)
If e2fsck completes, it should be ok. Then retry to e2fsck the root fs without
any option. It should recheck everything, and you shouldn't get anymore errors.
If possible take note of the questions e2fsck asks when repairing. It might
tell you it found unlinked files, etc...
Good luck.
Phil.
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