When I boot up my laptop the boot process stops with the following error fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super block while trying to open /dev/sda1
The superblock could not be read or deos not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else) then the superblock is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with alternate superblock e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda fsck died with exit status 8 File system check failed A log is being saved in var/log/fsck/checkfs if the location is writable Please repair the file system manually I then get the option to run the maintenance console by inputting the root password or pressing ctrl D and letting the laptop boot as normal. I have tried running the e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda command once the laptop has booted up but it fails as the drive is mounted (which is right). I have run it from a Live CD with the drive unmounted and I have run it from the maintenance console but every time it complains "Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program". In each case I manually went through and manually unmounted each partition (sda1 /home, sda2 /, sda3 swap). If I press the ctrl D the laptop bootups and there does not seem to be any problems. Can anybody assist?? Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-08-04 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
