Declan Moriarty wrote:
% I'm in trouble - 'Can't mount root filesystem' - that sort of trouble.
[tale of woe mercifully deleted]
% Any other ideas? Somebody circulated some scripts to rescue this a while
% back, but they're saved on the dud partition :-(
Try mke2fs -S on the dead partition. -S causes e2fs to write only the
superblock and group descriptors, leaving the data alone. Use the same
block size as the file system has. The man page entry says it all:
-S Write superblock and group descriptors only. This
is useful if all of the superblock and backup
superblocks are corrupted, and a last-ditch recov
ery method is desired. It causes mke2fs to reini
tialize the superblock and group descriptors,
while not touching the inode table and the block and
inode bitmaps. The e2fsck program should be run
immediately after this option is used, and there is
no guarantee that any data will be salvageable. It
is critical to specify the correct filesystem
blocksize when using this option, or there is no
chance of recovery.
Kurt
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