Re: Corrupt Superblock

[david merriman]

Thanks for the feedback guys.  I really hope it's as simple as restoring 
my console.perms file to its former glory, though I admit to being a 
little skeptical, since it'd been working for the last few days without 
(obvious) problems.  Is it likely that a change I made in that file 
would not cause a problem until several days later ?  (Though having 
said that, I didn't sit and watch it boot up after the first time, so I 
may have missed something...)

I did try editing the console.perms file with Vim while in the shell, 
but I couldn't save the changes as the file was read-only, and I 
couldn't work out how to make it writable.  Obviously something simple, 
but it was getting late and I was getting tired...  I'll do some more 
research when I get home tonight, and maybe dig up a Knoppix CD as well 
<sings>A-hunting we will go, a-hunting we will go...</sings>

Btw, I've understood almost everything that's been suggested so far, and 
the rest I can probably guess.  I spent a few hours last night Googling 
for answers, so I (hopefully) wouldn't look too dumb if I did have to 
ask for help :D

Many Thanks,
Dave
Cunningly disguised as a responsible adult



Gareth Williams wrote:

On Thursday 09 October 2003 13:59, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
 

Gareth,

I wonder if the fact that Dave has only been using Linux for a month would
mean that your advice might be above his head.
Dave????
   

Oops, sorry, I didn't realise :-/ When someone posts an intelligently worded 
question, including relevant error messages and all the options they've tried 
so far, I just automatically assume they're not new without thinking ;-)

Dave, let us know how you go. If you need more specific help, post. Don't 
reformat yet :-)

Cheers,
Gareth