Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've found dumpe2fs more useful (in the same package). True, dumpe2fs is generally more useful, but it doesn't explicitly identify superblocks. You have to know that each Group begins with a superblock. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAI

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > > hmm..is tehre a way to get that info from a working drive? I > > would like to dump it to a text file and throw it on a rescue disk > > There is a program /sbin/findsuper in the e2fsprogs package

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > hmm..is tehre a way to get that info from a working drive? I > would like to dump it to a text file and throw it on a rescue disk There is a program /sbin/findsuper in the e2fsprogs package that sounds like it might be what you want. Unfortu

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread sjc
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 04:22:12PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > > that he run "e2fsck -

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes > several backup copies of

Re: backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes > several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these > are placed.

backup superblocks/bad drive

1998-05-13 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these are placed. Are they pla