[PLUG] superblock problem

Mel Andres mel97215 at comcast.net
Sun Nov 12 22:22:04 UTC 2006


Vincent Yau wrote:
>
> Hi:  I have a hard drive in my linux box that came up with a problem 
> this morning when I tried to boot it up.  It does not have much in it 
> so won't be a huge loss.  Nonetheless, I would still like to know if 
> there is anything I can do to fix it.  I tried fsck and I got back the 
> following errors.  Any suggestion how I fix my problem?  thanks!!  --V
>
>
> =========  FSCK output ================
>
> fsck /dev/hdb
> fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> hd2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read 
> while reading block 524
> fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
>
> hd2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read 
> reading journal superblock
>
> fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short 
> read while checking ext3 journal for hd2
>
>
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I don't have a lot of experience with this, but after reading the man 
pages for fsck and e2fsck I think I would try:
1.  Run e2fsck -ck      This will check for bad blocks.
2. Then e2fsck -pv     This will try to repair automatically with 
verbose output.

Mel



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