if you do a man on your filesystem mkfs type you should find an option like the one in mkfs.ext3 below... -n causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display what it would do if it were to create a filesystem. This can be used to determine the location of the backup superblocks for a particular filesystem, so long as the mke2fs parame- ters that were passed when the filesystem was originally created are used again. (With the -n option added, of course!) On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 02:14 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
After some blackouts I had to do some repair work to do on my computer. Most of my Sue 10.2 is working again but I got a problem with the second half of a 4Gb harddisk. The second half is not recognised any more and I am told to manual check the partition and try my luck with an alternate superblock. From earlier posts I remember that you can not just use the superblock from the repair proposal "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdd2 but that you should use the right superblock. Which is the right one for this case and how and where can I find this out. The harddisk is divided in a 2Gb part running from 0-261 and a second partition from 262 to 522 (1,9 Gb) -- Todd Ness