[ILUG] Can an ILUG guru save me?

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie>
  | Subject: Re: [ILUG] Can an ILUG guru save me?
  | Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:41:42 +0000
  | 
  |[ ... ]  In maybe 8 years using Linux, and 18 using Unix, I
  | have NEVER seen the use of an alternate superblock do any good.

 not exactly an alternative superblock, but close:
  a trick which saved me many times yonks ago back
 the volatile superblocks days was similar to:

    mkfs /tmp/file original_size
    dd if=/tmp/file of=/dev/dead_fs count=1
    fsck /dev/dead_fs

 which (re-)constructed the original superblock,
 installed it over the corrupted superblock, and
 then tried to patch things up.

cheers!
	-blf-
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