Re: Blown Partition-Help!


Subject: Re: Blown Partition-Help!
From: johan h. buelens (johan@illuminati.be)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 18:25:25 MDT


hi,

there are usually a spare superblocks at 8192, 16384, ...

you see the logic.

good luck !

johan

cbsled@ncia.net wrote:
>
> I accidentally tried to mount an audio CD.
> This caused the system to freeze up tight.
> I had to do a hard reset. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp didn't even work to kill X.
> On reboot the fsck bombed. It suggested I run fsck manually.
> That bombed. It suggested I try an alternative superblock, but I have no idea which block out of the millions on the drive I should try. Is there any hope, or is it toast?
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Microsoft: The company that made eMail dangerous.

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