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 :: :: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
