On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

because of problems like this. I make a backup of the partition tables of all my disks

dd if=/dev/hda of=machine_name.mbr bs=512 count=1

handy if you're multibooting and need to restore the original mbr

Joe

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