On 18:09 19 Feb 2002, lincoln@sol.dk <lincoln@sol.dk> wrote:
| I've got this poor ext3-partition which I can't access. I have tried a lot
| of things but it doesn't seem to solve the problem. I've got quite important
| files on that particular partition.
Have you tried getting at one of the backup superblocks with the -b
option to fsck? From "man e2fsck":
-b superblock
Instead of using the normal superblock, use an
alternative superblock specified by superblock.
This option is normally used when the primary
superblock has been corrupted. The location of the
backup superblock is dependent on the filesystem's
blocksize. For filesystems with 1k blocksizes, a
backup superblock can be found at block 8193; for
filesystems with 2k blocksizes, at block 16384; and
for 4k blocksizes, at block 32768.
Additional backup superblocks can be determined by
using the mke2fs program using the -n option to
print out where the superblocks were created. The
-b option to mke2fs, which specifies blocksize of
the filesystem must be specified in order for the
superblock locations that are printed out to be
accurate.
If an alternative superblock is specified and the
filesystem is not opened read-only, e2fsck will
make sure that the primary superblock is updated
appropriately upon completion of the filesystem
check.
I know you have ext3, but ext3 is just ext2 on steroids.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
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