On 3 May 2002, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 22:40, John Brown wrote:
> > My RH 7.1 install fails at boot.
> > What's a "super block"? How do you fix it with fsck? Can you?
> > John
>
> The Superblock contains the size, shape, version, and state of the
> filesystem. Things like block size, first inode, blocks per group, free
> blocks, free inodes, mount count, maximum mount count, last time
> mounted, last time written to, and flags that show the state of the
> filesystem (ie, clean unmount) are stored on the superblock.
>
[big snip]
If Ian's recent explanation of how the scheduler handles prority and nice
would be his fourth contribution to the suncoastlug.org faq page, would
his explanation of superblocks and how to fix them be the fifth?
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