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! > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Well, DUH! I'm an idiot! It's been so long since I've dual-booted into Windows, I forgot Windows was on /hda1, so when I read the error message, my eyes saw "/dev/hda1" (thinking my root system was on the first drive, first partition) instead of actually seeing that the error referenced "/dev/hdb1". I ran e2fsck on /dev/hdb1 and started making progress. A lot of damage, and it'll take me a few days to recover, but nothing major, and I've already got most of it under control. Thanks anyway!
