[plug] OS chimera revisited

[Nathan Alberti]

The device should be /dev/hdx where x is "a" for you primary master, "b" for
your primary slave, "c" for your secondary master or "d" for your secondry
slave disk.

E.g.  fsck /dev/hda

Regards,

Nathan.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hardy" <rhardy at cygnus.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:00 AM
Subject: [plug] OS chimera revisited


>
> skribe wrote:
> Just follow the instructions. When it gets to this point type in your root
> password and then at the prompt type in:
> fsck /dev/<whatever drive is giving you trouble>
>
> so at (Repair filesystem) 1 #      I typed: fsck /dev/c
>
> and got:
>
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
> e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/c
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> (Repair filesystem) 2 #
>
> ???? mmm. well, I suspect that all seems quite straight forward to a lot
of
> people out there. Wot?
>