fsck woes: no '-b' option?

[darren david]

fair enough, that seemed to get it working again. so now the question 
is... how does one go about selecting which block to use as a new 
superblock? i realize this may be a trivial question regarding 
filesystems ( it's over my head) so i will happily take a link to a 
comprehensive resource as a response, unless it really is an easy answer...

thanks again,
darren david

David Kirchner wrote:
> On 10/18/05, darren david <darren at 3x3x3.org> wrote:
> 
>>SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE
>>-b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE
>>SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8).
>>
>>
>>----
>>
>>this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsck', there is no
>>'-b' option. any thoughts on way around this? I'm running on 5.4-STABLE.
> 
> 
> It looks like the fsck man page needs to be clarified, and the fsck
> output needs to be modified. What is actually telling you to use -b is
> "fsck_ffs".
> 
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