Re: My superblock has been destroyed - please help!
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:51:55 -0700
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:19:36PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger
(stephan.hachinger@gmx.de) wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM
hard disk suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of
my linux partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I
try to e2fsck the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock.
Also, if I try with -b 8193 or -b 16385, e2fsck says that these
blocks contain a "bad magic number". Hmm, I've read that these blocks
should actually be superblock backups but I think since my fs was
made with the new default "sparse_superblocks" option, the backups
are perhaps somewhere else. Can anyone please help me with this
issue? I just desperately want to rescue my data before I send the
drive back to IBM or so because they will probably send me a new HDD
but not my old data, and of course I have not made backups, stupid
me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7 GB. I also have a
possibility to temporarely store up to 12 GB of data on hda1, a fat32
partition which scandisk could obviously "stabilize" more or less
after a bad block marking. At the moment, I'm trying to dd /dev/hda2
into a file on /dev/hda1 but there seems to be a problem with the
maximal file size on fat partitions (does anyone know about that?).
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Hello!
Sorry but I didn't notice that the sylpheed installation on my old
computer didn't have this as default.
Cheers,
Stephan
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