[wellylug] Re: e2fsck problems

[Damon Lynch]

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:22, teejay1203  wrote:
> Have tried using rescue to sort out this problem. I can mount the 
> linux partitions, and am trying to copy some information either onto 
> the Win XP partition or to floppy, only to find that I cannot copy 
> the files to either a XP partition or a floppy (seem to be mounted 
> read only).

you cannot write to NTFS partitions (well you can but it is considered
experimental i.e. dangerous).
> 
> Does anyone know how I can pull out about 3m of file that is stored 
> in a directory under / so that I can reinstall MDK 9 Linux?

What are you trying to copy from / ?  Normally files in here are
considered wipe-able.   /home is of course the very interesting stuff. 
Is /home in a different partition?  If so, you may be able to simply
format / and start again, while keeping /home unformatted.

Damon

> 
> Thanks
> --- In wellylug at yahoogroups.com, I wrote:
> > 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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