On Jul 14, 2002 16:07 -0400, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > I am having some trouble with an ext3 partition, getting the following error > when i go to fsck the partition: > > fsck.ext3: Bad mgic number in superblock while opening /dev/sda2 > > I tried the -b 8193 option, to no avail. Can anyone out there help me > recover this partition?? Unless the filesystem is very small (< 500MB), you probably should use "e2fsck -b 32768 -B 4096 /dev/sda2" in order to find the backup superblock. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
