[Techtalk] Bad Superblocks
Conor Daly
conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Sat Nov 30 14:36:37 EST 2002
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:27:47PM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Judith Elaine Bush thought:
>
> I have copied the two partitions into files using dd. That was
> "successful" -- I can scan the images with hexdump -c, pipe to more,
> and search for text strings to see what's on the drive. (I'm in the
> matrix, woohoo.)
Can you loop mount the _files_? Though, if you're having trouble mounting
the partitions, it's not very likely you'll be able to mount the files
either.
> is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
> e2fsck -b 8193
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you try this?
Conor
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