Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:44:37 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 failure question |
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Hello > > I've installed Linux on my girl-friend's machine. For some reason > LILO failed (not unusuall). What I did, is that I booted with a dos disk > and I did a fdisk /mbr so she could still use winblows '95. That went > well. > > After that, I had to make her a Linux boot disk. So I took a > kernel 2.0.36 (form redhat-5.2) compiled on my machine, and I used it as > a rescue disk, then I tryed to mount her linux partition, (with mount -t > ext2 /dev/hda3 /z) and mounting failed complaining about the mount type. > > Then I checked with fdisk to make sure that it was indeed in ext2, > and it was. Mount seemed to complain about a corrupted superblock. First > of all, is there anyway to bring this partition back (after all, aren't > superblocks suposed to copy themselves all over the disk?). Was the partition with ext2 really /dev/hda3? I don't suppose the SB could get corrupted by these operations. I think there simply isn't any ext2 superblock on /dev/hda3. The stamp in partition table is only for users and AFAIK nobody cares about it. If /dev/hda3 is really ext2 partition the fsck has option to read superblock from other block than the first (SB is copied in the beggining of each group which is usually 8 MB long).
> > Second of all, is there any software related possible causes that > could make ext2 crash when it coexists with win '95 on a drive. Because on > all the machines that I've installed linux on (about 12 or so), it never > crashes. I also haven't heard of any problems so far..
Honza
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