Hello,
A user running Redhat 7.2 on his system failed to boot today with the message 'cannot find label=/home' error messsage. I gave the SU passswd to get into maintenance mode and sure enough he is in alot of strife. His /home partition is /dev/hda3 - I checked this with 'fdisk -l' and it is indeed a native linux partition of 15GB (the size his home partition was). I tried going into rescue mode and mounting the partition it failed so I tried 'e2fsck /dev/hda3' and it failed with the classic 'bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hda3' '... try running e2fsck -b 8193' So I run e2fsck -b 8193 and I get the same error message. I also tried other locations where the superblock may be stored (8192*n) +1 but it keep failing with the same error message ie I can't restore the superblock. What are my options at this stage? Is there anyway I can backup the partition, recreate it and restore the data? Using some sort of rawread? Or is all his data lost? Is there anything else I can try to restore the superblock? Many Thanks, Melinda *********************************************************************** Dr. Melinda Taylor Computer Systems Administrator Dept. of Astrophysics and Optics Phone: +61 2 9385 4560 School of Physics Fax: +61 2 9385 6060 UNSW, Sydney, 2052 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
