Re: [SLUG] Super Block fix

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 11:20:30 EDT


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:28:30PM -0400, Greg Schmidt wrote:

> 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?
>

Could be....

Paul



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