On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 10:33, Stefan Sten wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed Debian 3.0 on my system, on its own drive. Debian was > recognised as hda1 (master) where / is. And lilo at hda. > > Now. having mandrake at hdb1 (slave) as /, I wanted to mount the > filesystem of mandrake as /mnt/mandrake so I could access som file > through Debian. > > I did not think that much as I typed (it was late here at Sweden): > > 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/mandrake' > > that didn�t work, of course, so I typed: > > 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/mandrake' > > when I remembered that the filesystem was not ext2, but instead ext3, so > I typed: > > 'mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/mandrake' > > To my suprise debian replies, telling me that ext3 support is not available. > > Tired of error messages and shortage of time, I decided to replace the > drive with debian and setup my system as I had it before. Only the > Mandrake drive as hda1 (master). > > When booting I got this error: > > "Failed to check filesystem", "Try to correct [Y/N]", typed Y and got this: > > "The filesystem size (according to superblock) is 732808 blocks, the > physical size of the drive is 100320 blocks. Either the superblock or the > partion table is likely to be corrupt!" > > Now, is it possible that I corrupted the drive when trying to mount it through > Debian? I can�t find another explanation. Is there a way to fix this? > > Would appreciate any help, > > Edvard. > ______________________________________________________ It's tough to understand how this could have corrupted the filesystem, but anyway....the first thing I would try is to boot from the distro install CD in rescue mode. Have it mount the filesystems under /mnt and have a snoop around.
lycka till Brian
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