Thanks everyone for their help on this one.

mke2fs -n /dev/hda3

revealed the real positions of the superblocks and I then succesfully
fscked using the real positions.

I have one very happy user who is now determined to backup regularly :)

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mark Pearson wrote:

::According to the e2fsck man page, if you use mke2fs -n on the partition
::it will tell you where the superblocks should be placed.
::I recently had to repair an XFS partition with a bad superblock and it
::automatically scanned for a secondary.
::
::--
::Mark Pearson BSc (Computing)
::Technical Support, Dept Nuclear Medicine
::Concord Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, NSW 3139, Australia
::
::

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