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Hosed ext3 superblock




--- On Wed, 6/2/10, Charles Bennett <ccb-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Dear Desperate -
> 
> If none of the superblock entries found with 'mke2fs -n'
> are working,
> you can throw down fresh ones with 'mke2fs -s'.  This
> will not touch
> the data, but it will obliterate superblocks.
> 
> Then fsck.  It will be very scary, but you may get a
> lot of it back.

I'll give that a try.  Is there any information I need to know in order to create a superblock?  Say, block size?

I'm sure I used the defaults when I installed Ubuntu.  I wonder how I can easily find those defaults now.

One last thing: any special parameters to fsck?  (I guess "-y" will be useful!)

Jesse Hughes


      






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