8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Sun Dec 20 05:58:42 UTC 2009


Marcel Rieux wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had and still have problems with e2fsck:
>>
>> e2fsck -c /dev/sdb
>> e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
>> e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
>> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb
> 
> I did the change with fdisk:
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes
> 120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x04030201
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        1198     3951100   83  Linux
> 
> but 2efsck still complains.

You should be running e2fsck on the partition (/dev/sdb1), not the
entire drive (/dev/sdb).

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