System Recovery

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 11:05 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
>> Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
>> trying to open /var.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> You need to give it a block device, not a file system path. i.e., you
> need to pass /dev/foo to fsck, not /var.

  I was wondering about that.  While specifying the block device is
certainly a good idea, if it was getting confused about what "/var"
meant, fsck would generally emit a "/var: Is a directory" or "/var:
Not a block device" sort of error.  The "short read" message implies
that fsck considered "/var" a mount point and resolved it to a block
device.  No?

-- Ben