Re: [newbie] Strange Problem Need help from Mandrake soft

[Steve Philp]

Jeanette Russo wrote:
> 
>  Can someone give me the right syntax to replace the superblock using
> ex2fsck?
> I think its the -b switch but I have tried
> ex2fsck -b /dev/hda5
> and this does not work.  I would like to try this one last thing before
> giving up to replace the superblock?

Superblock numbers are multiples of 8193.  So, you'd use something like:

        e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda5

or
        e2fsck -b 16386 /dev/hda5

Hope it helps.

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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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