Re: inode

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:10:08PM +0530, upengan78 wrote:
> Hello All
> Well I am sad to write this from a win98 machine bcaz
> of stupid command -> "dd if=111.bin of=/dev/hda2 bs=1440 count=1" 
> from root on RH 7.1
>  Actually /dev/hda2 was where / got mounted everytime..but now this 
> command has caused inode table to get corrupted on /dev/hda2 
> (may be bcaz i replaced usual bs=512 to bs=1440 and so its written to 
> unwanted space cauing damage to i-node tables)..

Dare I ask what this is supposed to do?

> now i can't go beyond kernel panic screen on RH 7.1
> So Can i get back my data in /dev/hda2 ???How?
> Pls mail me personally and forward this to known Sys Admins
> (this time not going to crosspost..:) )
> bye thnx
> 
> Upendra    
> http://home.graffiti.net/upengan78

I think you'll have to do a re-install to fix it.  I don't know of any
way to fix that kind of damage.  When you do, you will need to tell it
to format that partition, because it will need it.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.