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Re: e2fsck says it fixed corruption, but it didn't
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> > I have a corrupted superblock.
>
> Have you tried comp.os.linux.sex.reabilitation? :)
>
> > So I log in as root and run e2fsck using a spare superblcok:
> > So then I shutdown and reboot, thinking I've solved the
> > problem, but NO! When I reboot, I get exactly the same problem.
Just turn the system to the 1 runlevel ( telinit 1 or as you wish ) ,
repair the file system by fsck ,as you done, and do 'halt -n' - it's
important !
> Why does it check the file system *at all* after a clean reboot?!
>
Read configuration scripts !!!
> > So my question is, how come e2fsck says it fixed my problem,
> > but it seems to not have?
>
> What if you run e2fsck again immediately after it's finished fixing the
> partition?
>
Cause reboot ,shutdown etc. sync the buffers and sblocks to disk and
owerwrite repaired filesystem. ( for more check out J. Bach
"THE DESIGN OF THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM" book :) )
> >
> > Here is my /etc/fstab, in case this is useful:
> >
> > /dev/sdb1 swap swap defaults 1 1
> > /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > none /proc proc defaults 1 1
> > /dev/sdb2 /u1 ext2 defaults 1 1
>
> It should look like
>
> /dev/sdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
^^^^^
> /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
^^^^^
> /dev/sdb2 /u1 ext2 defaults 1 2
>
It should do no problems under linux if you don't do backups.
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