On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:28 AM Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > >> >> Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >>> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >>> red characters : >>> >>> EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock >>> >>> this repeated three times ! >>> >>> >> This looks a bit worrisome, but it may not actually be; it depends on >> what device is at sda2 (it might be a second (unformatted, unused) hard >> drive, or a USB thumb drive, or a CD/DVD drive, or ...). >> > > No it can't be; I wasn't thinking straight. This is a second partition, > not a second drive. > > This is almost certainly your problem. The next question is if it's a > hardware, formatting, or mounting problem. I'd run "cfdisk" and see what > that shows me. > > > No, again, I think I've been mistaken. Seeing a different thread dealing with this same problem, I realize that /dev/sda2 is likely the "container" for extended partitions; trying to mount it would likely result in an error; so I'm back to thinking I'd put my worry about this error message aside for now, and see what "cfdisk" or some equivalent, like "fdisk -l /dev/sda", says.
-- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
