>on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:03:08PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Below you see a copy of the last thread I'm referring to. My HDD and >> especially the superblock no.1 is heavily demaged - but I now have managed >> to e2fsck the partition using the backup superblock number 32768. Debugfs >> /dev/hda2 can also show me the contents of the partition, but "mount -t >> ext2 -o sb=32768 /dev/hda2 /mnt" just won't mount it and says "bad magic >> number" etc. Can anyone please tell me what I'm missing? Does mount >> calculate the superblock offset in another way or should I give up or??? I >> need this data desperately as I mentioned. If anyone can help me, thanks >> thousand times in advance. > >Can't help you on disk forensics, but I *strongly* recommend you image >the disk to known good media before you tweak with it. Your debug tools >should work on the disk image equally as with the physical disk, with >the added bonus that it's not likely to go bad (or worse).
Hmm, if I'd only have a HDD to save the data, I would be happy :) ; then I could probably do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/xyz and e2fsck - b 32768 /dev/xyz, e2fsck would restore the first superblock and my problems were gone... but I have no second hard disk which is that big :(. Cheers and thanks anyway, Stephan
