[TriLUG] fscking problem!

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Jason wrote:

> root at 1[~]# fsck  /dev/ida/c0d0p6
> fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 2965136 blocks
> The physical size of the device is 977156 blocks
> Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
> Abort<y>?

I don't know either. There are other superblocks on the disk 
which you can find with one of the e2fs utilities. Try the 
fsck with these. If they all agree, then you must have a bad 
partition table.

It's unlikely that the partition table was messed up with a 
bad shutdown.

Is the disk valuable? If so, make a dd copy of it to another 
disk and mess with the copy.

Joe

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