On Nov 09, 2003 10:57 +0100, qad0t@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > My question therefore is, if there are any (backup) superblocks on an > arbitrary ext3 partiiton which i could access to recover some data at > least. I tried the formula (8192*n +1), but bad luck.....i assume that > backup superblocks are not sprayed round the partition like that. Try 32768*n, where n = { 3^i, 5^i, 7^i}, so 3, 5, 7, 9, 25, 27, 49, ... This is the default spacing for filesystems larger than 500MB. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users