Re: Partition hosed. Is there a way to find the superblock?

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

rob wrote
> I did something stupid (not rebooting after a re-partition), and so
> now after I finally did reboot, I've got a partition with a bunch of
> data on it that can't be mounted.  Both mount and e2fsck complain
> about not being able to find the superblock.  I can get some of the
> data off of it by just running strings on the partition, but I'd
> really rather find the superblock and bring it back to life.  The data
> there is not critical (it's just my Debian mirror partition), but I'd
> rather not have to reconstruct that through my modem link if I don't
> have to.

> Is there some "magic number" or unique header I can search for that
> will tell me where one of the (backup) super blocks is stored?

If you go to yesterday's "ask slashdot" about corrupted hard disks, someonethere mentions a program which searches the entire hd for a superblock.

rick

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