[LI] e2fs problem

[Sunil Soman <sunil_soman@xxxxxxxx>]

   While trying to run e2fsck on my native partition I got the following
message :

Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda5

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 <device>

What do I do ?

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