bad magic number...ew

out of my league..Sorry.

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Michael Havens wrote:

> This is the result of your instructions, Marcia.
> ~~~
> root@bmike1:/home/bmike1# fsck /dev/sda6
> fsck 1.34-WIP (21-May-2003)
> e2fsck 1.34-WIP (21-May-2003)
> Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
> fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda6
>
> 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>
> ~~~
> One of the problems may be that it is ext3 format. Because such is the case I
> took the command they suggest (e2fsck -b 8193 <device>) and modified it to
> e3fsck -b 8193 </dev/sda6> in the hopes that would solve the problem. Yet the
> response was the same.
> ~~~
> root@bmike1:/home/bmike1# e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda6
> e2fsck 1.34-WIP (21-May-2003)
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda6
>
> 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>
> ~~~
> So what should i try now?
> (I really wish I had been raised with Unix rather than M$.)
> :)~MIKE~(:
> On Sunday 03 August 2003 08:41 pm, Marcia Wilbur wrote:
> > Did you do fsck /dev/sda6?
> >
> > fix this? Y
> > fixt that? Y
> >
> > If you didn't, I think you can just reboot and it will give you the error
> > and you can give it the root pwd to fix, then type the command. Answer
> > y,y,y
> >
> > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Michael Havens wrote:
> > > fsck.ext3 Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/sda6
> > > /dev/sda6
> > > The superblock could not be read. (blaah blaah)
> > >
> > > After this error message was the instruction to press control-d to
> > > contiue the bootup if I determined (blaah blaah). After it finishe
> > > booting I found that I could open sda6 anyways.
> > > (I got this error last night BEFORE I messesd with the permissions)
> > >
> > > Any ideas how to fix it?
> > >
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