Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Problem solved. I could restore the superblock using: dd if=disk skip=32 of=disk seek=16 bs=512 count=16 Thx to http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.netoe=UTF-8output=gplain Cheers, Tom ___

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Thomas Gutzler wrote: Problem solved. I could restore the superblock using: dd if=disk skip=32 of=disk seek=16 bs=512 count=16 Thx to http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.netoe=UTF-8output=gplain Not really

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Bruce Evans wrote this message on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 16:12 +1000: Thx to http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.netoe=UTF-8output=gplain Not really solved. fsck_ffs is supposed to be able to find alternative superblocks

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Armand Passelac
I don't have the solution. But I known a program taht allow you to restore partitions : http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html It seems to be very powerfull. With it you could get your data from broken partitions. PS : I know the developper, so if you have problem ... [ On Sun,

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Matthias Andree
John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've also had the problem of when you do use an alternate superblock via -b, it doesn't over drive the primary. If you have a disk with bad blocks on the primary, you have to manualy rewrite it with dd. ...provided the drive automatically reassigns

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Am Sun, 24.Aug.2003 um 23:50:56 -0700 schraubte John-Mark Gurney: Bruce Evans wrote this message on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 16:12 +1000: Thx to http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.netoe=UTF-8output=gplain Not really solved.

recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Hi, I just lost all of my filesystems on my 5.1 box. I was running mnogosearch's indexer on my website while several errors occured. I guess there were 320 of these errors, cause the last message was last message repeated 320 times. Unfortunately /var is lost as well, so I don't have more error

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just lost all of my filesystems on my 5.1 box. I was running mnogosearch's indexer on my website while several errors occured. I guess there were 320 of these errors, cause the last message was last message

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have lost over 1,000 to 2,000 emails like three times when the Nvidia driver crashed and had to do the power off and on to get it boot to let the fsck background do

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:53:26 -0400 (EDT), Andre Guibert de Bruet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have lost over 1,000 to 2,000 emails like three times when the Nvidia driver