recover superblock
Bruce Evans
bde at zeta.org.au
Sun Aug 24 23:12:48 PDT 2003
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Thomas Gutzler wrote:
> Problem solved.
>
> I could restore the superblock using:
> dd if=<disk> skip=32 of=<disk> seek=16 bs=512 count=16
>
> Thx to
> http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-100000_root.org%40ns.sol.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
Not really solved. fsck_ffs is supposed to be able to find alternative
superblocks automatically, and the primary superblock shouldn't get
trashed. Apparently the first alternative is at offset 32 (this is
a normal place for it IIRC), but fsck_ffs can't find it there for
some reason.
Bruce
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