[NBLUG/talk] Oh, goodness, what have I done?

Ross Thomas boscorama at fastmail.us
Fri Feb 11 11:19:19 PST 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:14:28 -0800, "Robert Hayes" <rhayes at silcom.com>
said:
> I was having difficulty with a secondary hdd, nothing TERRIBLY critical
> in terms of data, but would prefer not to lose it.
> 
> I unmounted the drive, and ran 
> e2fsck -fvy /dev/hdd1
> 
> I went crazy with invalid block numbers, dtime errors, magic block, etc.
> 
> Here's the stupid part. I stopped e2fsck: <ctrl>-c.
> 
> Now this is what I get.
> 
> Is it terminal? Should I be tasered?
> 
> Please be gently.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> #:  e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdd

Is that a typo?  Shouldn't it be /dev/hdd1  ??

Ross.




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