another question, that i'm thinking now after this email... i never read about, but... what's the size of super block? could it be mirrored inside the disk like a raid1 inside the device being used? if the first image of superblock is broken try to read the next one -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html