Have you tried slapping the poor sickly drive into another machine (as hdb) and
attempted mounting the needed partitions from working box?
Does this yeild anything? This is actually the first thing I do when a drive seems to
crap out on me. If I can't read the drive as a slave in aanother box, then I resort to
drastic measures.
--Greg
> 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
>
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