lost+found

Jim Austin auji at cruzio.com
Wed Jun 1 19:35:41 UTC 2005


Ed Wilts wrote:

>On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:04:52PM -0700, Jim Austin wrote:
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>>The system is bookable and I can log in as root, but am unable to use 
>>many commands.  Going into single use mode, I can vi files. 
>>Tried fsdsk on /dev/hda and looks like I've got a bad superblock and no 
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>i                ^^^^^^^^
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>That should be the partition, not the entire device.  If that's not a
>typo, you'll need to retry it specifying the partition that /usr is on.
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Sorry for all the typos.  I ran fsck on /dev/hda2  which is the  /boot 
partition and it's clean.  The problem is on /dev/hda3 which is the / 
partition.  Guess I need to boot off a floppy so I can run fsck on it 
when it is not mounted.




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