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tony at access-info.co.nz tony at access-info.co.nz
Mon Jan 20 13:19:06 NZDT 2003


Got a fun problem.
Have a 40 gig HD one partition, ext2, hdb1 on a RH7.3.

Doing some swapping around of hardware, and placed this partition on another 
7.3. Cam up with seek errors and other crap.

Then could not mount drive.
Currently trying to fix it on a rh6.2

fsck /dev/hdb1 reports
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2 Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1 

Tells me to try 
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

I do but no luck

fdisk tells me this

/dev/hdb1 start 1 end 4865 blocks 39078081
and sees a ext2 partition

Any help or ideas. I have a semi resent backup but would like to get some other 
stuff off the drive as well like isos, whole os's rh 6.2, 7.3, 8.0

tx in advance


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