Jerome Lyles
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:02 pm, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Bombadil@ya.com writes:
After modify /etc/fstab (I think it's right) when I try to mout the hd I get the message "Can't read superblock", Can anyone tell me what it means?
It means what it says. I suggest you use the partitioner module of YaST to re-create and mount the filesystem.
All it says is "Can't read superblock". It doesn't say 're-create and mount the filesystem'. It is not obvious, to me at least, that the first means the second:-).
The "second" is a recipe to fix a problem described by the "first" when you add a new disk. A superblock is a structure in the filesystem which contains "global" information about the filesystem. (Try e.g. dumpe2fs on an EXT2 FS on a floppy to see what is inside this superblock.) If the superblock cannot be read then the FS cannot be mounted - usually, the FS is non-existent or corrupted. -- A.M.