yipee! 'mount -o sb=131072 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1' mounted the drive and I can now browse the folders. So, how do I copy the backup superblock to the primary superblock? Time to google this...
so while trying to fix it I found out what the problem really is with debugfs There is a bad magic number in the original super-block... back to google.... I've been googling since 2:00! Can anyone helP? > Also, if you're having trouble mounting an ext23 filesystem, something you > might want to try is to mount it using the backup superblocks. "mount -t > ext3 > -o sb=131072 /dev/sda2 /mnt/somewhere" is the canonical first backup > superblock to try. Or since reading the disk appears to be working, copy > each > partition somewhere, make a copy of that copy, and attempt to work on that > copy with e2fsck and/or debugfs. > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-:
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