[PLUG] Busted computer
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
Wed Oct 17 08:24:51 UTC 2007
>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
John> Well, I did it. For future reference, a switch that would tell
John> e2fsck "just make all the changes you need to and don't bug me
John> about it because I wouldn't understand your messages anyway"
John> would have been useful. I ended up having to hit "y" several
John> thousand times.
As it happens, there is such as switch.
>From man fsck.ext2:
-y Assume an answer of yes to all questions; allow used
non-interactively. This option may not be specified at the
same time as the -n or -p options.
John> When it finished it seems to have repaired the superblock and
John> most of the other problems, except evidently something Ubuntu
John> needs in order to boot got deleted or moved, because the boot
John> screen starts and then hangs.
FWIW, most of the time I've personally seen the superblock problem, it
has turned out to be something not wrong with the filesystem. That
is, the block device is missing or somewhere unexpected. That doesn't
sound like your problem though. But for reference.
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