Re: Help (my first crash)

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

Christopher Judd wrote:
> 
> 	I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years).  I've
> been running a bo system for about six months.  This morning the system
> crashed and will not boot from the hard disk.  I booted from the rescue 
> disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=swap).  e2ckfs reports a 
> bad superblock.  Is there a way to create a new superblock so that I can 
> mount this drive?

You have backup superblocks on the disk for just this reason. You can
try e2fsck -b 8192 /dev/hda3 and see if that helps.

Tim

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