[TriLUG] filesystem error on upgrade to RH 7.2

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 21:37, Richard O. Hammer wrote:

> Tonight I'm poking at it.  My root filesystem is supposed to
> be on /dev/hda6.  But I'm getting different results from fsck
> when I call it on the root two different ways.
> 
> Contrast this:
> (Repair Filesystem) 8 # fsck.ext2 /
> e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /
> 
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a
> correct ext2
> filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an
> ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then
> the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck
> with an alternate superblock:
>      e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
> With this:
> (Repair Filesystem) 9 # fsck.ext2 /dev/hda6
> e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /: clean, 35647/626496 files, 88716/1251054 blocks
> 
> Can you help me understand that?  Or anything else here?
> 

Do you use initrd?  If so, then when you
first boot up, your root directory is probably
mounted somewhere else to begin with and your
bootstrap system is on a ram disk, which obviously
wouldn't be ext2.  However, when you specify the
partition directly, of course it works.

Tanner
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