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Job advert fail

Friday, July 25th, 2008

You would hope that recruiter’s could spell a bit better

Definitely need those communication skills and attention to detail.

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Centos 5.2 + Udev + XEN

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

So my first Centos 5.1 to Centos 5.2 upgrade on a VPS didn’t go so well.

After “yum update” and a reboot, we see:

[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193

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