[SLUG] Superblocks and lost mp3

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@nospam.rumble.net>]

Jeff's excellent Slug Pearl on my problem made me realise I hadn't
posted the resolution of the problem (bad as it is)...

What happened was my main superblock got corrupted on an ext2 partition
containing losta of mp3s.

Someone mentioned to me that the tool findsuper device (in this case
findsuper /dev/hdc3 ) to find the superblock on the partition.  It found
the superblocks and then I could run e2fsck -b x /dev/hdc3 to recover my
drive.

Of course doing that found lots of errors and ended up giving me a
lost+found directory full of all my beloved mp3s that now look like:
c-w--wsrw-    1 8630     25368    202, 214 Jun  5  1949 #65344
s--S--sr-x    1 4175     36387    4294967295 May 29  1955 #65415
s-wSr-S--x    1 56681    12921    4294967295 Aug 30  1989 #65423
b-ws-wx-wt    1 11441    39367     78,  45 Oct 21  1988 #65443
brwsrwxr-x    1 59069    26490      4, 101 Nov  2  1934 #65471
c-ws--s-wT    1 19065    5093     171, 150 Aug 16  1987 #65528
b--sr-srwT    1 28270    29558    147, 142 Jan 11  1907 #7390
br-sr-sr-T    1 30066    34441    116, 113 Jun  5  1913 #7427

:(

No idea if these are recoverable but since I have a cable modem,
recovering all these legal mp3s that I own the original CDs for should
be a problem.  Erm. ;)

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