[wellylug] e2fsck problems

[teejay1203 <teejay1203@hotmail.com>]

I have a 513m P3 running Windows XP/Linux with XP taking up 3 drives 
(C D and E with 10G, 8G, 10G) and Linux taking up the last 10G.

Tonight I tried to boot up Mandrake Linux 9 which came up with the 
following :

Checking root filesystem
fsck.ext3/dev/had6
Superblock could not be read or does ot describe a valid ext2 files 
system. If a device is valid and it really contains an ext2 File 
system (and not a swap or ufs or somthing else) then the superblock 
is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with an alternative 
superblock

e2fsck - b 8193 <device>

Bad magic number is superblock whiel trying to open /dev/hda6 
(failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors (Y/N)

When I try to enter "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hada{6..9) it just gives 
the fs2ck options and nothing else

Can someone tell me (preferably in English) what the above means, 
and what I should do?


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