[H-GEN] degrees of filesystem sickness?

Allen Grace s336357 at student.uq.edu.au
Thu Jun 4 09:46:54 EDT 1998


On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Zer0 and I have just been discussing this on irc, and we have come to the
> conclusion that 03:42 is not a valid device.  Ie, it is a legal device
> designation but it is meaningless to Linux.  It would be /dev/hda42 which
> just doesn't exist.

O! (as old Will would have it)

> or 2) You are trying to reference /dev/hda42 which does not exist.  So
> check for types in places like /etc/lilo.conf (after booting from floppy).
> When mounting the FS, remember to explicitely state what partition is
> should be.

I would have to mount it to have a look, no? I can't do a normal boot,
have been using redhat emergency disks which don't try to mount anything
except themselves. And don't use lilo.

> This wouldwork if the FS is there, unless it is totally foobared :)  And
> remember there is a copy of the superblock very 8mb, so keep trying adding
> 8192 each time "-b 16385" etc.

ok i didn't know this. Sounds clever, will have a try when it's not late
at night.

> This is a real OS :) It is extremely rare to have to wipe a disk -
> basically the dish would have to be physically foobared.  This isn't M$
> "reinstallware" [Thanks for that excellent term Shakkaz]

three cheers for shakkaz!
and thanks for feedback.

allen
--
PD: pardon of my horror syntax english. you must be patient with me.


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