[TriLUG] Help! Red Hat v7.2 / IBM ThinkPad T21 crash

[David A. Cafaro]

Try "e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hda1" (or whatever is the bad partition).  I
don't believe you use fsck on the whole device (such as /dev/hda) but on
partitions on that device (such as /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 etc... which ever
is your bad partition).  Oh and here is a good quick over:

http://www.linuxcertified.com/recovery.html

Hope that helps.

-David

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 13:03, Robert Heinich wrote:
> I could use some help in recovering my system.
> 
> Upon boot-up,  I receive
>    Error reading block 65710 (attempt to read block from filesystem 
>    resulted in short read) while doing inode scan
> 
> Tried
>    fsck -y /dev/hda and it reports that
>       Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
>       fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to 
>                  open /dev/hda
> 
> Tried
>    fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda
>       and 
>    fsck -b 16385 /dev/hda
> 
>    both report Bad magic number in super-block while trying to 
>                open /dev/hda
> 
> The Win98SE boots ok.
> 
> If some kind soul would call me, I would appreciate it.
> 
> advTHANKSance,
> Robert Heinich
>     (m) 919-247-4489
>     (h) 919-382-9668
> e-mail: robert_heinich at juno.com
> 
> :---
> IBM ThinkPad T21, PIII 800Mhz, 384MB
> Red Hat v7.2 with all patches; kjournald on
>    with Win4Lin
> Win98SE
> 
> 
> 
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