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Re: advise - linux file system problem



On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Isaac Miller wrote:

>    Am I going to re-install Linux or can I fix it ?

Reinstall.

> I have run the DOS scndsk command and let it perform a surface
> check on a shared DOS/Linux disk. I was surprised to note many BAD 
> clusters (about 4000 out of 47000) and let scandsk mark them BAD 
> wrong already ????).

Very wrong. Scandisk can't know about Linux filesystem. I have no idea
why, but scandisk tried to mark on the Linux partition (!!!) which is
completely different than a DOS (fat/vfat) one.

>  HPES: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS
>  Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01

Obvious.

> So I wrote the table using the 'w' command and tried booting once
> again but to no avail. I received the same panic error as before.

Won't work. Even if in some miraclous way you manage to fsck that
filesystem after booting from your rescue disk (you did make one, didn't
you?) you will have TONS of bad directories and lost inodes. I think
you're done for it. Unless there's some HIGHLY CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT
information - Re-mkfs and re-install Linux.

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