At 8:07 pm, Tuesday, June 4 2002, Melinda Taylor mumbled:
> 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'
>
>From a very quick Google'ing, you should dump the partition to a backup with
dd or such to a file, and try to 'mke2fs -S' (make superblocks and group
descriptors only) on it. That is *very* last resort, and my advice is to try
high (as in near the end of the partition), or 'mke2fs -n' to see what
numbers the superblocks may be.
--
Steve
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