On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 01:46:18PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> So... I lost my partition table.  I'm willing to spend a little time
> on this.  Is there a byte sequence that I might recognise in a
> superblock or at the start of a partition?  I know this isn't an easy
> task, but man 5 fs leads me to believe that I might find:
> 
>      #define FS_MAGIC        0x011954   /* the fast filesystem magic number */
>      #define FS_OKAY         0x7c269d38 /* superblock checksum */
> 
> ... but I don't see those bytes.  Any hints?
> 
> I'm willing to post a description of a solution for the FAQ if I can
> find the filesystems.
> 
> Dave.

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Joe
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