Re: dpkg not broken....my disk is.
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:54:03AM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> I've posted a message earlier about dpkg not installing....I found the
> source of problem. Turned out after the upgrade of almost all vital
> packages filesystems do not umount at hte poweroff/reboot. Also, the disk
> is 16.4% non-contigiuos. That was causing problems with certain files,
> which happened to be the /var/lib/dpkg/info files. I had to do trick the
> dpkg into believing everything was ok. (remove the files completely
> corrupted, replace and improvise other files).
>
> Any way to defrag the partition? defrag does not seem to be working, it
> gives me error message:
> bad magic number in super block
>
> TIA,
> Andrew
>
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Boot from the rescue disk and use "e2fsck -c /dev/<your harddrive". This takes
a while, but will scan every sector and determine if it is bad.
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