[ale] crash

Ed Landa elanda at comstar.net
Mon Jul 21 19:19:50 EDT 1997


On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, David Hamm wrote:

> [...] I'm getting a message that says the super block is bad and I
> should run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1" and mabee that will fix the
> problem.  If I cant fix the superblock problem how can I gracefully
> restore this system without disturbing the other software? 

The filesystem stores multiple copies of the superblock across the disk. 
By specifing '-b 8193' you are telling it to use a backup copy of the
superblock. 

Ed
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