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Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!



On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Mark Allums<mark@allums.com> wrote:
> Protection by isolaton, partly.

I do the same thing.

Maybe it's just superstition, but it's fairly rare to lose a whole
hard drive, but fairly common to corrupt a filesystem.

Such corruption usually happens when you (intentionally) write to a
filesystem.  It could happen otherwise, because of some wildly buggy
kernel code writing outside the proper partition, but I would expect
that to be rare.

So if you have separate filesystems, /tmp, /var and /home are likely
to get corrupted, but /boot and / aren't so likely.  In the event of
this kind of corruption, you should still be able to boot.

Don Quixote
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