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Re: [SLUG] Argh! My drive no work

To: Rev Simon Rumble <simon@nospam.rumble.net>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Argh! My drive no work
From: DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:05:45 +1000 (EST)
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> > Filesystems-HOWTO should help you recover (or completely destory :)
> > your filesystem.
> 
> Erm, nope it doesn't.  It tells me about E2fsprogs which I have and have
> tried e2fsck...  No luck and there don't seem to be any options in the
> man page for recovering from this problem short of alternate superblocks
> -- which don't seem to work.  Should I be trying other superblocks?
> What numbers do I need to use?  Can I search through the fs for them?

When you originally mkfs the drive, it tells you where the backup
superblocks are stored.

Unfortunately, if you're anything like me, you don't bother writing them
down/storing them anywhere, and you're stuffed.

DaZZa

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- Re: [SLUG] Argh! My drive no work
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