Bad magic number in Super Block

[Pete Buechler]

On Saturday 06 January 2001 08:26 am, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> > Hi Folks;
>
> My SuSE 6.4 partition has developed a problem, When I start the SuSE
> partition
> I get the following:
>    /dev/hdb1 clean, 24/5040 files, 3179/20128 blocks  failed
>    Loading keymap qwerty/us.map.gz                        failed
>
>    fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root file
> system is currently
>    mounted read-onle. To remount it read-write do:
>    bash#mount -n -o remount, rw /
>
> I have not a clue on how to correct this problem. If it is not a
> simple correction
> then I will re-install SuSE 6.4.
> TIA
> Clay Stapleton

Before you re-install, try to login as root and then type

fsck.ext2 /dev/hdb1

It will find problems in the disk and ask you if you want to fix them. 
Say "yes" as many times as necessary. When you are done logout by 
typing CTRL-D and the computer will reboot. Hopefully all will be well.

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-- 
Pete Buechler
Developer, SuSE Labs
peterb@suse.com
http://www.suse.com/~peterb