Re: [SLUG] Help - Disaster Struck

[chesty <chesty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:40:00PM +1000, Steven Kerr wrote:
> The superblock on an importnant hard disk has fried.
> 
> Moving the disk to the second drive on a system and attempting to
> mount it result in messages about the superblock being corrupted and
> its an invalid ext2 fs.
> 
> fsck -t ext2 also fails. It is definitely an ext2 fs.

First try a non destructive way, like:

strings /dev/hdb | less

then search for some text thats in the config file, 
it might be a slow way of doing it, but you can't do any
more damage to the disk.

Or read the Filesystems-HOWTO, section 2.1.2 Repairing 
corrupted partition table, theres a few programs like
findsuper, Fixdisktable, gpart, rescuept.



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	chesty