Brilliant! That worked. I'm now back up and running. It gave me 4
superblocks with mke2fs and I think 32768 was the one that came first -
anyway, it worked..... thanks very much.
Out of interest.... has anyone got any pointers to procedures for monitoring
/ maintaning / backing up the filesystem to (hopefully!) stop this happening
in the future?
thanks once again!
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Parkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: problems mounting filesystem
>
>
> The advice to look for a superblock at 8193 is rather dated. I have not
> seen mke2fs put a superblock there in a long time. You can try
>
> e2fsck -b 32768
>
> which is where I see mke2fs put the first superblock these days. If you
> want to be sure, do
>
> mke2fs -n /dev/hda5
>
> This will run mke2fs as if to create a filesystem, but it does not really
> create one. That will tell you where mke2fs would like to put the
> superblocks. Try those values as the parameter to '-b' for e2fsck.
>
> - rick warner
>
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