On Thursday 22 July 2010 20:52:56 Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:50:46 +0100, xendis...@gmx.com said: > > OK I can add an update to this, the mounted partition turned out to be > > the swap file > > Do you mean swap *partition* rather than file? If so, no problem: the swap > partition doesn't have an ext3 filesystem on it and thus no superblocks, > etc. However, it seems unlikely that /dev/sda1 is the swap partition, so > what makes you think that it is?
Yes I meant partition, not file, I did not say sda1 was the swap file, I said sda3 was swap (in my first post). It was not until I switched swapoff that I could run the e2fsck command without it complaining about being busy. Things have taken turn for the worse as the laptop decided enough was enough and refused to boot so I wiped the partion, via Gparted on the live CD, remade the partitions to the same scheme as I had last time and reformatted to ext3. I am having my doubts about the hard disk (or maybe the hard disk sub systems) in this laptop as I have reinstalled mepis but the laptop is now running and refusing to do anything that has to access the hard disk ( I can open menus and click on program icons but it is refusing to launch any programs). I have a spare hard disk somewhere so I will dig that out and put it in the laptop and see what happens. Thanks for the help 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
