On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:54:03AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > I've posted a message earlier about dpkg not installing....I found the > source of problem. Turned out after the upgrade of almost all vital > packages filesystems do not umount at hte poweroff/reboot. Also, the disk > is 16.4% non-contigiuos. That was causing problems with certain files, > which happened to be the /var/lib/dpkg/info files. I had to do trick the > dpkg into believing everything was ok. (remove the files completely > corrupted, replace and improvise other files). > > Any way to defrag the partition? defrag does not seem to be working, it > gives me error message: > bad magic number in super block > > TIA, > Andrew > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrei S. Ivanov > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UIN 12402354 > http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. > http://www.missouri.edu/~c680789 <--"Computer languages of the world" > My work in progress. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Boot from the rescue disk and use "e2fsck -c /dev/<your harddrive". This takes a while, but will scan every sector and determine if it is bad. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
