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  From: 9405581j <hawjd001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
  To  : Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:53:53 +1030 (GMT+10:30)

Re: any ideas on this fsck error

this has just happened to me too.....

i just upgraded to RH5.2 from (mostly) RH5.0, I had rebooted fine once,
and now it wont boot.

I ran fdisk off the emergency boot disk, and there is no partition table
at all. It gone. Kaput.

Is this a _very_ bad thing? 

If so, is there a way to salvage any data from it?

I believe the disk is OK (WDC 2gig)  and I have other Linux systems at my
disposal...


> 
> # ./e2fsck /dev/hdb2
> e2fsck 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> ./e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
> while trying to open /dev/hdb2
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
> 
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MrJ					Computer Systems Engineering
hawjd001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au	Unisa, Levels Campus 


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