[expert] Superblock Corrupted - Please Help.

[Sevatio Octavio]

Well, I managed to get into trouble again...

What I just did was deleted a vfat partition and turned that space into an ext2 
partition.  Now I can't boot up without an error.
Here's what it's telling me...

"The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem.  If 
the device is valid and it really contains an
ext2 filesystem (and not swap or usf or something else), then the superblock is 
corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an
alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 (device)"

I tried e2fsck but don't quite understand it.  Where should I go from here to resovle 
this?

Seve

Re: [expert] Superblock Corrupted - Please Help.

[Richard Kilgore]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
 Well, I managed to get into trouble again...
 
 What I just did was deleted a vfat partition and turned that
 space into an ext2 partition.  Now I can't boot up without an
 error.  Here's what it's telling me...
 
 "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct
 ext2 filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains
 an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or usf or something else), then
 the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with
 an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 (device)"
 
 I tried e2fsck but don't quite understand it.  Where should I go
 from here to resovle this?
 
 Seve

You need to make a filesystem on the partition:

  # mke2fs /dev/hda4

or whatever your new ext2 partition is.

  - rick

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