Christopher Judd wrote: > > I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've > been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system > crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue > disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=swap). e2ckfs reports a > bad superblock. Is there a way to create a new superblock so that I can > mount this drive?
You have backup superblocks on the disk for just this reason. You can try e2fsck -b 8192 /dev/hda3 and see if that helps. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Paranoia is a survival mechanism." -- Anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .