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Re: Giving up



On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Oori Hasson wrote:

> A disk error which corrupts the superblock can be fixed
> by running e2fsck and manually specifing a different superblock
> than the first ones.(-k superblock I think)
> 
> 1. I always write the addresses of at least a few when installing Linux
> for these cases.
> 
> 2. I suspect the addresses on the disk are the same for all Linux 
> installations, but am not 100% sure. If so someone can send you an 

they ARE exactly the same, when using the asme block/inode sizes I
believe. I always use the default, so they are always the same.

btw, the only time to go down from 4k to 1k inodes is when you KNOW the
file system will have a lot of tiny files, especially if it changes a lot,
like a news spool. for most other uses I'd stick to the defaults.


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