From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Steudten <alpha@steudten.com>
Subject: Re: attempt to access beyond end of device
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:20:07 +0200
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Try fsck.ext2 (or fsck) with -fvn <your root device eg /dev/hda1>.
-n tests in read-only mode.
> It is a IDE disk, without software raid, formatted as ext2. Since it is the / 
> partition I cannot run fsck immediately to tell you what says, I need to stop 
> the machine.


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Tom

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