Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3565 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Thursday 2007-04-19 at 02:18 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

> It is an ext3 filesystem. Think it would be best to make a copy of the disc 
> and I have to find out how to make a raw copy of the partition which I can 
> not mount.
> When I used e2fsck it told:

You should have made the copy before doing the fsck run, now it is 
modified, and you can not back from those modifications.

image backup:

dd if=/dev/hdXY of=image_hdXY

And, you can run fsck on the image instead of on the real data, and test 
out different strategies.


> Filesystem revision too high while trying to open /dev/hdd2
> The filesystem revision is apparently too high for this version of e2fsck.
> (Or the filesystem superblock is corrupt)
> 
> 
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
>     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> 
> e2fsck -b 8193 it tells me:

You can not simply plug in that number without really knowing before hand 
that there is a superblock in there. It is an example!


- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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