On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:18:42 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would I still be able to retrieve the superblock for /dev/hda6 should > it have resided somewhere in /dev/hda5 or it's not anymore possible as > I may have overwritten it already? Or did I just misinterpret what > I've read in the previous operation?
If you didn't make a new filesystem, and just manipulated the partition, then I think the superblock is still there. When I was looking for my NTFS superblock, I didn't know of a binary 'grep' progrram so I did an 'od -x' and grepped for the ASCII representation instead. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
