sdb1 is clean
e2fsck says there is a superblock corruption.
Did you do what it said, and fsck with an alternate superblock ?
What about the other partitions… will it fsck them?
You need to repair that corrupted superblock… I think fsck will do it
Ext2 is more prone to this, it does not keep a journal. Why not use ext3 or 4?
It is probably something trivial… if Gentoo boots and runs it is either ignoring it or working around it. fsck is more picky. gparted seems happy. It seems to be a filesystem issue, not a failing disk, but you can check with smartctl.
@nevj
Well I found out that the Gentoo Mate DE will only display mounted partitions with using mount points with /media/xxxx.
Now I can only use sudo startx or startx to mount the Mate DE, do not know why the display-manager will not use my username and password.
They are user mounts… made with the File Manager
If you make a system mount with sudo mount /dev/sdx /mnt/...
You can use any mount point you want… ie it doesnt have to be /mnt or /media
All mounts should display with df. I cant be sure what any DE would do
Have no idea as to what happened to my “daniel” user account, added a new user account “danielp” and was able to login to Gentoo. All data is still there, all I did was change logins and put everything back in firefox.
lsblk, df, findmnt,mount were all showing all partitions on /dev/sdb as mounted, but none where showing on my desktop.
I think I would be checking that disk with smartctl
Clearly fsck changed something in your filesystem… are you game to fsck it again…you can do it interactively so you get a chance to back out.
I have not abandoned LFS, so now I have Gentoo on a 1tb Samsung SSD
and LFS running on a 120GB SansDisk. Will attempt a chroot mount into LFS and continue my journey with LFS!!!
Gentoo and LFS are lot alike, but Gentoo has a package manager, to help with
finding dependencies.
Got twm and xterm and even have the nouveau driver for my old Nvidia GT430.
I now have to rebuild some packages after getting elogind, Linux-Pam and Polkit and
the xorg-server compiled, haven’t decided to use a full-blown de or just a windows manager.
I really am leaning toward XFCE and either Sea Monkey or Falcon. Trying to stay away from anything “qt” and “webengine”, if I can!! Am having to rebuild some packages, with added makefile flags", so I am in new territory and am treading very carefully!!
As of today I now have xfce4 running on LFS!!! This has been quite a journey!!!
Using startx to launch xfce4. so I guess i either need a Login Manager, like lightdm, or a Display Manager or even a browser!!! Help me to decide what to work on first!!!
Will post a screenshot as soon as I can!!!
You need a Login Manager. … either that or use startx to start xfce4… it does not make much difference… you still end up typing your name and passwd. Login Managers are overrated… they do very little.
You already have a Display Manager in Xfce4.
Browser choice is personal, but if you choose one of the big browsers you are in for a long compile. Lookat the medium sized ones ( like Pale Moon) but try them out in Gentoo first to see if you like them.
That is small but it may drag in some KDE stuff.
That is not a great choice.
What happens if you look outside of LFS?
I dont know Sea Monkey… isnt it old?
It is old, but it uses the latest firefox engine, could never logon to Its Foss!!
I have a lot of the dependencies for firefox, just need the nodejs and that will take most of this night to compile!!
Does not really look like I have much choice!!!
