RE: Corrupted superblock

["Tim Goldstein" <tgoldste-at-mlh-services.com>]

Not a scientific answer, but I would nuke it and reinstall. It will probably
take you an hour to get it all reinstalled and it will take you days,
weeks,. . . . to get maybe learn what to do to repair it.

As long as you can read the disk from the other disk, copy off the files you
need to keep (EMC run and ini files, g-code, edited files in /etc) and go
for the reinstall. Unless your goal is to make Linux your hobby.

Tim
[Denver, CO]


> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Clint Bach
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 7:53 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Corrupted superblock
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> My EMC installation may or may not be toast... RTLinux won't boot,
> Serious stuff! The computer has forgotten its name and there is not a
> user called root. I get error 202 and error 204... and a message that
> inode bit 6 is already set and that the file system is not a file
> system.
>
> However... When I boot from the other hard drive and mount the drive
> with EMC and RTLinux everything is there... What can I do to recover
> this? Should I just reformat this hard drive and start over? Should I
> copy the whole drive to the other drive (there is room on the other for
> the whole drive) and try moving it back? Where can I find information on
> corrupted superblocks?
>
> The basic question is should I attempt to fix this drive or nuke it and
> start over?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Clint Bach