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Teng Wang writes: |
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> Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that |
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> was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my |
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> laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it |
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> really matter? Or what should I do to recover? |
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With a litle luck, e2fsck should be able to repair the file system. mkswap |
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only initializes the partition, little data should be written to the first |
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few blocks. This includes the superblock, but you have backups of it every |
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8192 blocks. So try 'e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdwhatever', if a simple e2fsck |
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failed, and increase to -b 16385 and so on until it works. |
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But I'd reboot the machine first and start with a boot CD. Depending on the |
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availability of free space, your free time, and importance of the data, you |
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probably should backup the partition first, just in case things get messed |
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up. |
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Wonko |
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