On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 04:22:12PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > > I've got a friend who has a corrupted his primary partition. He gets > > an error message when he boots of an invalid superblock suggesting > > that he run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1". I know that mke2fs makes > > several backup copies of the superblock, but I'm unsure of where these > > are placed. Are they placed in "standard" locations? If so, what are > > they? > > Well, one of them is at 8193, which is what it is telling you! > I would guess that the next one is at 16383, but I'm not sure. > Then 24575, 32767, etc. > hmm yea... when you format the drivin initally it actually lists all of the places where it stores the backups... nice to know that it told you that once (and probably at a time where you couldn't copy and p[aste out to a file..or print) hmm so I never wrote mine down ....hmm..is tehre a way to get that info from a working drive? I would like to dump it to a text file and throw it on a rescue disk (just in case)...so I take it im the only one who DIDN'T write all of those down th efirst time (j/k) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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