On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 23:51:55 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:19:36PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Hmm, the subject says almost everything... my almost new (!) IBM hard disk suddenly had some bad sectors and one was the superblock of my linux partition. So, I cannot boot into linux any more, and if I try to e2fsck the partition, e2fsck doesn't find the superblock. Also, if I try with -b 8193 or -b 16385, e2fsck says that these blocks contain a "bad magic number". Hmm, I've read that these blocks should actually be superblock backups but I think since my fs was made with the new default "sparse_superblocks" option, the backups are perhaps somewhere else. Can anyone please help me with this issue? I just desperately want to rescue my data before I send the drive back to IBM or so because they will probably send me a new HDD but not my old data, and of course I have not made backups, stupid me. The partition is /dev/hda2 and about 7.7 GB. I also have a possibility to temporarely store up to 12 GB of data on hda1, a fat32 partition which scandisk could obviously "stabilize" more or less after a bad block marking. At the moment, I'm trying to dd /dev/hda2 into a file on /dev/hda1 but there seems to be a problem with the maximal file size on fat partitions (does anyone know about that?). > > Please set your linewrap to 72 characters. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > Hello! Sorry but I didn't notice that the sylpheed installation on my old computer didn't have this as default. Cheers, Stephan
