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[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:

> I just finished making a 'dd' copy and putting it on a second drive, so the 
> original is as safe as it can be.
>
> Would the new 'mkfs.ext3' not use the exact same backup superblocks, by the 
> way?

Yes it does unfortunately, therefore the approached suggested won't work 
in the case where all of the superblocks have been overwritten - which is 
exactly what happens when a mkfs.ext3 is done.

Rob

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