Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Am Sun, 24.Aug.2003 um 23:50:56 -0700 schraubte John-Mark Gurney: > Bruce Evans wrote this message on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 16:12 +1000: > > > Thx to > > > http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain > > > > Not really so

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Matthias Andree
John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've also had the problem of when you do use an alternate superblock > via -b, it doesn't over drive the primary. If you have a disk with > bad blocks on the primary, you have to manualy rewrite it with dd. ...provided the drive automatically reassi

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Armand Passelac
I don't have the solution. But I known a program taht allow you to restore partitions : http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html It seems to be very powerfull. With it you could get your data from broken partitions. PS : I know the developper, so if you have problem ... [ On Sun,

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Bruce Evans wrote this message on Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 16:12 +1000: > > Thx to > > http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain > > Not really solved. fsck_ffs is supposed to be able to find alternative > superblocks aut

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-25 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Thomas Gutzler wrote: > Problem solved. > > I could restore the superblock using: > dd if= skip=32 of= seek=16 bs=512 count=16 > > Thx to > http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain Not really sol

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Thomas Gutzler
Problem solved. I could restore the superblock using: dd if= skip=32 of= seek=16 bs=512 count=16 Thx to http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-10_root.org%40ns.sol.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain Cheers, Tom ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:53:26 -0400 (EDT), Andre Guibert de Bruet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have lost over 1,000 to 2,000 emails like three times when the Nvidia driver cr

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I have lost over 1,000 to 2,000 emails like three times when the Nvidia > driver crashed and had to do the power off and on to get it boot to let the > fsck backgroun

Re: recover superblock

2003-08-24 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just lost all of my filesystems on my 5.1 box. I was running mnogosearch's indexer on my website while several errors occured. I guess there were 320 of these errors, cause the last message was "last message repe