problem with e2fsck not knowing xfs

Keld Jørn Simonsen keld at dkuug.dk
Sat Apr 22 20:38:55 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:29:34PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2006  12:00 +0200, Keld J???rn Simonsen wrote:
> > I had problem yesterday with e2fsck. 
> > It reported a bad superblock.
> > I then tried to use one of the other superblocks.
> > To no avail. 
> > 
> > Then later I remembered that I had switched the fs type to xfs.
> > Maybe e2fsck could recognize other common fs types,
> > and report this instead?
> 
> Or, maybe you can change your /etc/fstab to report the filesystem type
> as xfs.

Of cause I did so, to make it work.

And I promise to never ever again make errors.

Well, I am just asking for a more intelligent error message than 
bad superblock. I think some of the other mkfs programs do so.

best regards
keld




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