bad superblock question
Chris Hill
chris at monochrome.org
Sun Oct 9 21:25:23 PDT 2005
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mr. Darren wrote:
> I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it
> uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any
> point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't
> mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this
> drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running
> fsck, it just asks to use the backup at sector 32. I
> can't seem to find any other software to replace it or
> edit it. I've read a fair amount of man pages now.
If you have another disk to boot from, try mounting your old /var
read-only. At least then you could get your data off it.
HTH.
> --- Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:29, Mr. Darren wrote:
>>
>>> I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was
>>> unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck
>>> I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe.
>>> How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main?
>>
>> I think fsck does this automatically - you may have
>> to reply "y" at the
>> right place.
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