On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:50, Brian Parish wrote: > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > Hello ! > > > > I installed 9.2 for a friend of mine and everything went smoothly. I > > even updated it completely. His computer had a Windows partition and I > > decided to turn it into a /home partition. I think my mistake was that I > > didn't format it - I was running HardDrake. Now his computer won't start > > because of a superblock error - partition /dev/hda6 is said to have > > superblock errs. > > Is there a way I can (re)format it and create the /home directory again > > ? I was advised to boot in failsafe mode and run e2fsck, but > > unfortunately it didn't work. > > Please, I really need help. > > TIA > > You can boot into single use mode using failsafe as you did before, but > you need to then format the partition. Running e2fsck won't do that. > > Try: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda6 > > to create the default journalized filesystem on this partition. > > HTH > Brian
Thank you very much, Brian. Everything is OK now. > > ______________________________________________________________________ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 ********* "Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." Albert Camus
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