Ray Olszewski wrote:
> e2fsck checks ext2 filesystems, not drives. /dev/hdb is NOT a
> filesystem; it is a drive. The drive contains partitions; according to
> your (I presume) fdisk output, partitions /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2
> contain ext2 filesystems.
>
> The message you get in respons
e2fsck checks ext2 filesystems, not drives. /dev/hdb is NOT a filesystem;
it is a drive. The drive contains partitions; according to your (I
presume) fdisk output, partitions /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 contain ext2
filesystems.
The message you get in response to "e2fsck -b 131073 /dev/hdb" is
[root@Webby root]# e2fsck -b 131073 /dev/hdb
e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an
