On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> In desperation because I don't think it has made it to the list I'm sending
> again. Sorry if it's a dupe.
>
> All,
> got a problem of mega proportions here. I've got a drive given to me
> by my boss. The attempt had been made to upgrade it to Mandrake from some
> unknown distro called SuperAuk.... Anyrate it seems that in order to use
> large drives (20gigs) they messed with the superblocks to get around the
> 1024 limit. Now I have a drive with hdc6 filled with data that must be
> preserved and no way to access it because of a corrupt super block.
>
> Original partitions hda1 /
> hda3 linux extend
> hda4 swap
> hda5 /usr
> hda6 /home
>
>
> Can't fsck or e2fsck anything but hda1 when I mount hda1 the only thing
> that exists is a pointer to the home directory. Madrake can see the
> partion but cannot mount hda6 debugefs won't work without the
> superblock. A hex editor shows that data still exists on the hda6
> partition. I'd rather not have to do a hex edit line by line. Is there
> someway of doing a straight binary copy? I'm in deep on this one folks
> please anyone have a suggestion?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
> Nightwriter
man e2fsck
checkout the -b option.
hope it helps
