Re: backup superblocks/bad drive
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Stephen Carpenter <sjc@gis.net> asks:
> > ....hmm..is tehre a way to get that info from a working drive? I
> > would like to dump it to a text file and throw it on a rescue disk
>
> There is a program /sbin/findsuper in the e2fsprogs package that
> sounds like it might be what you want. Unfortunately it doesn't have
> either man page or info file (except the standard default saying there
> isn't one). findsuper --help and findsuper -h yield nothing helpful.
> I can't find a reference to findsuper in /usr/doc/e2fsprogs.
>
> However, findsuper <devname> produces a list of superblocks. It
> works whether the file system is mounted or not.
I've found dumpe2fs more useful (in the same package).
Cheers,
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