where to RTFM about disk errors

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Fri Jul 19 09:41:00 PDT 2002


Oooops, that is every 8192 blocks....  too fast with the fingers

At 09:38 AM 7/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>On ext2 filesystems backup superblocks occur every 8192 bytes so you 
>should have one at 8193 and 16385 ..... etc.
>
>e2fsck -b 16385 /dev/hd**
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>You might want to check for badblocks also.... time consuming...  give 
>e2fsck the -c option to have it check for bad blocks before it checks the 
>filesystem.
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>At 09:28 AM 7/19/2002 -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
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>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>I have a problem with a partition on my hard drive, and I need to know
>>where to read up on possible recovery solutions beyond the e2fsck manpage.
>>
>>e2fsck reports that not only is my superblock bad, so is my alternate
>>superblock. There is 40 gigs of data in that partition that I would really
>>like to recover.
>>
>>The drive itself is healthy so it appears to be one of those unexplained
>>things that happens when X hangs the whole computer and shutting the power
>>off is required.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for all the suggestions about restoring from backup, of
>>course there are none :(
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