Hi Steve,
This worked somewhat, I ran it on hda5, and hda6 and it fixed a bunch of
stuff on hda6 but file system still comes up read only after boot, but I
must be on the right track because ex2fsck finally found something wrong and
fixed it.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Strange Problem Need help from Mandrake soft
> Jeanette Russo wrote:
> >
> > Can someone give me the right syntax to replace the superblock using
> > ex2fsck?
> > I think its the -b switch but I have tried
> > ex2fsck -b /dev/hda5
> > and this does not work. I would like to try this one last thing before
> > giving up to replace the superblock?
>
> Superblock numbers are multiples of 8193. So, you'd use something like:
>
> e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda5
>
> or
> e2fsck -b 16386 /dev/hda5
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
