Howto: Find The Alternate Superblocks

#1 (**permalink**) 08-Apr-2005, 10:12

Title: HowTo: Find the Alternate SuperBlocks
Discription: Emergency FileSystem Repair

http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...ackupsuperblock

Post any comments / questions / etc. in here.

#2 (**permalink**) 22-Apr-2005, 18:35

actually the whole thing with building a loop and mke2fsing it isn't needed, look at mke2fs' -n parameter. mke2fs -n /dev/partition-device shows the same info (and doesn't touch the data). ;-)

#3 (**permalink**) 22-Apr-2005, 21:03

imhereforasecond,

Thanks for the feedback. I checked out the option. What does that really buy you, though? You still have to dd to create the file. Is the point that you don't have to wait a few seconds for the filesystem to be created?

Let me know. I will consider changing the howto.

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