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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