>>>>> "Leo" == Leo Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Leo> Hi
Leo> Anyone around who is a super(man/woman) when it comes to
Leo> superblocks? My primary hard-disk stops at boot time with
Leo> Kernel Panic and complains :"file system revision too
Leo> high". So I boot up from an alternate hard-disk and do an
Leo> fdisk-l on the problem disk. The partition information
Leo> shows. No trouble there. There are in all 7 partitions. I can
Leo> mount all but TWO of the partitions. Apparently the
Leo> superblocks on the ext2 file system on those partitions got
Leo> corrupted. None of the e2fsprogs or tools can access those
Leo> two partitions. I've tried dumpe2fs, debugfs and even ext2ed.
Leo> Any ideas on how to recover from this situation? I had just
Leo> spent the last month pruning my CVS tree and putting a lot of
Leo> things in place. I'd like at least to be able to recover some
Leo> of the directories. The system is RH 7.1
Use the -b option of e2fsck. Alternate superblocks are usually found
on block 32768, 16843 or 8193 (depending on whether your EXT2
filesystem uses 4K, 2K or 1K data blocks). mke2fs -n will also print
out the superblock locations.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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