[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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