[2457] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Wreski)
Sun Sep 14 00:09:13 1997
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
To: "Carl D. Notfors" <notfors@digicon-hou.com>
cc: "linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970913101429.notfors@digicon-hou.com>
> Sep 12 18:25:12 mist kernel: Partition check:
> Sep 12 18:25:12 mist kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
> Sep 12 18:25:12 mist kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
> bash# /sbin/e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sdb
> e2fsck 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /sbin/e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb
Try choosing a partition to scan, instead of the whole disk at a time.
/dev/sdb refers to the entire disk, not the partitions, with ext2
filesystem on them. There is no filesystem in /dev/sdb itself, rather,
the individual partitions contained on the disk.
Dave
