recover superblock

[John-Mark Gurney]

Bruce Evans wrote this message on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 16:12 +1000:
> > 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.

I've also had the problem of when you do use an alternate superblock
via -b, it doesn't over drive the primary.  If you have a disk with
bad blocks on the primary, you have to manualy rewrite it with dd.

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