[PLUG] bad Harddrive recovery

Josh Orchard josh at emediatedesigns.com
Thu Dec 18 05:05:02 UTC 2003


I had a HD go from ok to feeling sick.

Now I can't get it to mount.  I'm giving the familiar superblock error:

 e2fsck -b 294912 /dev/hdc1
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdc1

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

I tryied to run e2fsck on the ext3 partition and tried all the super
blocks that mke2fs -n /dev/hdc1 tells would have been created.

Since I can't find a good superblock is there a way for me to create
them?  I do see that I can run mke2fs -S and that will recreate the
superblocks and group descriptors but wanted to run the problem past
you before I jump into that last ditch effort.  There is a little bit
of data left on the disk I would like to copy off.

Thanks,

Josh




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