incorrect super block

[Lowell Gilbert]

lee slaughter <lee at slaughters.com> writes:

> doing a backup:
> burncd -f  /dev/acd1 data /home/backups/rtfm.lees.20030311.tar.gz  fixate
> 
> mount /dev/acd1 /cdrom    gives  "incorrect super block"
> 
> is an iso9660 format expected?

No, in that case a UFS format is expected.

> where does one look for error messages?

You have them already.

There is no filesystem support for mounting gzipped tar files as
filesystems, so you'll have to use it as a raw device.
     tar -xzf /dev/acd1
should extract the data.