Corrupted Hard Drive

Mickey binarynut at comcast.net
Thu Jan 29 23:19:29 UTC 2015


On 01/29/2015 11:16 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 01/29/2015 09:59 AM, Mickey wrote:
>>
>> What command should I use to overcome this ?
>
> The hard drive is partitioned, yes?
>
> fsck /dev/sdb#
>
> If your file system is on the second partition:
>
> fsck /dev/sdb2
>
> By not using a number you are pointing to the entire block device and 
> not a partition.

Thanks Michael, That did the trick.


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