[6797] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Superblock completely hosed...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Sat Nov 30 16:05:39 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 12:04:53 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
To: Robin Atwood <RobinAt@IBM.Net>
CC: Red Hat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Robin Atwood wrote:
.......
> Is there anyway I can get the superblock rebuilt? I never got ftape to drive my
> Iomega so I don't have a backup :-(. Since I can actually read the partition from
> OS/2 I could copy all the config files to HPFS, format/install Colgate and copy
> them back! However, I would prefer to try and fix the partition.
Boot with a boot disk and run fsck on hosed partitions. Superblock
copies are stored multiple times across the ext2 partition and
can be recovered; hopefully, your OS/2 mounting didn't hose them.
Regards,
Vlad
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