On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:34:18AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Looking at this - your filesystem has really been overwritten very badly > with 0xff on every other byte. You could try to use a backup superblock > (e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdb2), but things aren't looking so great... > This won't help. The superblock wasn't affected; it was in good enough condition that dumpe2fs and e2fsck didn't barf. The problem is that 0xFF was written on every other byte in the inode table, and there isn't a redundant copy of the inode table. (Every so often, it's been considered, but doing so would close to double the metadata overhead of ext2, and keeping a backup inode table up-to-date would also significantly slow down the filesystem.) - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
