Emergency
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 25 15:22:19 UTC 2005
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:21:11PM +0000, Jason Shein wrote:
> I just got in the door, late on this thread.
>
> here's my 2 cents.
>
> I came across this howto a while ago, and it has helped me out of a pinch.
>
> First, if you have a spare hard drive, make a copy of the data on the
> bad disk (or better yet two) in case the hardware will die, and work on
> the copy.
>
> Then do:
>
> # /sbin/mke2fs -n /dev/hda5 -b [blocksize]
> Be sure to use the right block size here!
>
> You will see output including:
>
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
> These are the locations of the superblocks.
Those superblock locations are among the first things mkfs writes to.
They are very likely to be all toast already. This was a case of
accidentally mkfs'ing not a case of drive corruption or failure.
Lennart Sorensen
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