On 26 Jan 1980, Kent West wrote: > When I got home today I discovered that the power went off while I was out. > When I turned on the monitor to my Debian potato box, I saw a message that > said "bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1" and > that the superblock could not be read and that I should try running e2fsck > with an alternate superblock. I then tried "e2fsck -b 8193" and got the same > message, so I then tried it with 16385 and got the same message. > > I am a total newbie when it comes to working with superblocks; can anyone > give or point me to a step-by-step fix (assuming there is one)? > > Thanks! >
I have tried to do this a few times and it's never worked for me. I mailed the author of fsck and he assured me that it does work at least sometimes, and of course I accept what he says; but I've certainly had no luck with it and I've always had to reinstall when the dreaded message appears. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.freethinker/uklinux.net/ "To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity." I.A. Richards
