[Gllug] Ext3 volume seems to be swapspace

Tom Schutzer-Weissmann tom at schutzer-weissmann.net
Fri Mar 30 14:07:23 UTC 2007


On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:19, Kostas Georgiou wrote:

> e2fsck will do this for you, from the manual page:
> -b superblock
> ...
>    If  an alternative superblock is specified and the filesystem is
>    not opened read-only, e2fsck will make  sure  that  the  primary
>    superblock  is  updated  appropriately  upon  completion  of the
>    filesystem check.

Thanks for reading a man page for me again, Kostas - this time I had read it, 
I was just a bit reluctant to do something drastic when I wasn't completely 
sure what the problem was. In the end I backed everything up and recreated 
the filesystem from scratch.

Regards,
Tom SW
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