OK, I tried doing mcomb's suggestion, but I'm not quite sure what happened. I then did the -s whatsit and got this:

empeg:/empeg/bin# mke2fs -S /dev/hda4

mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09

ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/

hda4 is mounted.

Filesystem label=

OS type: Linux

Block size=4096 (log=2)

Fragment size=4096 (log=2)

4872896 inodes, 9741414 blocks

487070 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user

First data block=0

298 block groups

32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group

16352 inodes per group

Superblock backups stored on blocks:

        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,

        4096000, 7962624

Those last two numbers are new, so I tried the fsck command again with the first of the new numbers but get

fsck: fsck.ext2: not found

I think I've screwed something up.

Steve.