[ale] Bad Superblock on /hdd?

[phrostie]

could you post the line for hdd from your /etc/fstab.
this will show what and how is being mounted and unmounted.


On Thursday 10 January 2002 00:52, you wrote:
> ALE,
> Has anyone else had problems with RedHat 7.1/7.2 with a /dev/hdd?
> It seems like sometimes when I shutdown/reboot/restart the box, the drive
> is not unmounted properly. I can pull the power cord out of the back of the
> machine, and /hda will be checked and "cleaned" but I have never seen that
> happen with /hdd.
>
> The error message that I get is basically tells me that if my format is e2
> and the drive is valid, then I have a bad superblock. Trying out their
> suggested command e2fsck -whatever /dev/hdd gives the same message.
>
> This problem occurs on both of my machines - when I used to keep the /hdd
> in DOS format, it was much easier to recover. Thinking that the latest and
> greatest Linux format would prevent these types of problems, I reinstalled
> the entire machine, and let RedHat reformat the drive as a Linux native.
> Mistake.
>
> I would really love to know how to solve this problem. Right now (because I
> am not a Linux guru) my quickest solution seems to be a reinstall with a
> spare drive - just to get the machine to finish booting up. Maybe going
> back to DOS format so that I can just type fsck /hdd.
>
> I have discussed this with a competent Linux hacker - his response amounted
> to "that's weird, I don't know."

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