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Re: Help about faulty filesystem
- To: Gold Edward <avieal(at-nospam)inter.net.il>
- Subject: Re: Help about faulty filesystem
- From: Shaul Karl <shaulka(at-nospam)bezeqint.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 23:40:42 +0300
- cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: Message from Gold Edward <avieal@inter.net.il> of "Sun, 08 Apr 2001 20:23:51 +0200." <3AD0ACB7.4FCEAE43@inter.net.il>
- References: <3AD0ACB7.4FCEAE43@inter.net.il>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
> The system in trouble is based on SuSE 6.1 .
> A third IDE HD was added as hdc- there were already other two--and
> linux was on the second one, as hdb1- to hdb3.
> The mount procedure went wrong (long story) and now the machine boots
> itself only in "maintenance mode", while it recognizes only hdb3
> (hence no swap found).
>
> The kernel reports some lenghty message, but I was only able to read the
> following (as the screen rolls on, without control):
> "...which requiere relocation, or one part of the inode table which must
> be moved. You may wish to try running e2fsck with the -b 8139 option
> first.
> The problem may be only with the primary group descriptor, and the
> backup
> descriptor may be OK.
> /dev/hdc: Block bitmap for group 076 is not in group (block 524288).
> /dev/hdc: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY."
>
> e2fsck -b ... did not work.
Boot in single mode seems in place.
What was the exact report? If 8139 did not work you might try higher 16385 ( =
2 * 8192 + 1) or 32769 ( = 2 * 16384 + 1). In any case, man e2fsck and
e2fsprogs can help you much more then I am.
> I surely want to try to save the filesystem- as installing SuSE 6.1 is a
> little tedious.
> Can someone help- even with a pointer to some stuff about salvaging
> filesystems by the metod suggested by the system ?
> I could not find something about this on the SuSE site- neither on a
> non-comprehensive search on "SuSE Unleashed" book.
>
> Thanks
> Edy
>
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