F7 Help

[antonio montagnani]

2007/7/25, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>:
>
> > this is a standard installation of Fedora: LVM???
>
> If its LVM that might complicate things.
>
> > And how do I run fsck from another PC (that is here..)??
>
> Urm... Just connect the disk to a working linux box. When you do that it
> will become available as one of the nodes under /dev/ (something like
> /dev/hdb1 /dev/sda1 etc. exactly what depends on the machine. running
> dmesg after pluging it in might tell you what).
>
> once you have identified what it is, just run
>
>   > fsck /dev/XXXX
>
> Chris
>
> > How do I run fsck from the single box??? ifI issue only fsck from
> > shell I get the warning that /etc/fstab cannot be open
>
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I get (the usb hard disk should be sdb..)

fsck /dev/sdb1
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/boot: clean, 21/26104 files, 21659/104388 blocks
[root at Casa ~]# fsck /dev/sdb2
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb2

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

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Antonio Montagnani
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