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mody
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 Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: [SOLVED] e2fsck error:Couldn't find ext2 superbloc.. |
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// SOLVED there was some corruption on dev/hda6.. thanks for the tip.
| Code: | # e2fsck /dev/hda
e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device> |
I get this error at boot up too. but everything seems fine... this same machine had FC3 and WinXP dual booting for over a year. I tried a gentoo install 4 months ago on this machine and I had the same problems, only they were a lot more severe. This seems to be the case only with Gentoo? Can 'hdparam' help in any way? I'm pretty sure the HDD is fine. Its a Toshiba A10. Has udev got anything to do with it?
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yottabit
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Hum....
First, it's specifying a drive instead of a partition, e.g. /dev/hda instead of /dev/hda1. (Check your /etc/fstab?)
Second, ext2 and ext3 are virtually the same, only ext3 has a journal. You can mount an ext3 as ext2 (but obviously without the benefit of the journal).
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Rithe
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I am actually getting the same thing when I boot now. I just updated my system, and started getting that error. It looks to me like it is trying to run fsck on /dev/BOOT. I don't actually have a directory or link for this, is this why I'm getting that error? I had a lot of updates, so I'm guessing something got changed in the fsck program possibly. |
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mody
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| Rithe wrote: | | I am actually getting the same thing when I boot now. I just updated my system, and started getting that error. It looks to me like it is trying to run fsck on /dev/BOOT. I don't actually have a directory or link for this, is this why I'm getting that error? I had a lot of updates, so I'm guessing something got changed in the fsck program possibly. |
edit your /etc/fstab to your actual partitions... you must have done an etc-update and overwritten it. Also chech the instructions on UDEV regarding the kernel configurator for conflicting options. This information isnt adequately treated in the handbook as yet. |
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