Corrupted Filesystem * IDEAS *

[Andrew Cunningham]

In article <RW33-1Dggpc2 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I know the horses have already got out, but what we do at FICC is to
>dd the superblock out of every file system every night, so if it *does*
>get clobbered we can just dd it back and run fsck, which generally puts
>everything back together.


You could also try fsck -b<number>. This number if the superblock location.

I've yet to see a disk drive without a second superblock at 16 (/etc/fsck -b16)
though yours may be different.  Look in /etc/sbtab for a list if it's
not your root partition that's gone with the wind......



AndyC


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