Hello! Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard disk suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my linux partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to e2fsck the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock. Also, if I try with -b 8193 or -b 16385, e2fsck says that these blocks contain a "bad magic number". Hmm, I've read that these blocks should actually be superblock backups but I think since my fs was made with the new default "sparse_superblocks" option, the backups are perhaps somewhere else. Can anyone please help me with this issue? I just desperately want to rescue my data before I send the drive back to IBM or so because they will probably send me a new HDD but not my old data, and of course I have not made backups, stupid me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7 GB. I also have a possibility to temporarely store up to 12 GB of data on hda1, a fat32 partition which scandisk could obviously "stabilize" more or less after a bad block marking. At the moment, I'm trying to dd /dev/hda2 into a file on /dev/hda1 but there seems to be a problem with the maximal file size on fat partitions (does anyone know about that?).
Regards and thanks in advance, Stephan
