I haven't yet because I am pretty worried about doing anything potentially destructive to the data... Madison (who's been at it now for over 15h... )

Have you tried using debugfs (part of e2fsprogs)? It lets you tinker with the superblock manually.

Also: happy birthday.

JV

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:

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Well, the fact that I am posting this after 12:00am Sunday night (and on my birthday, to-boot!) should indicate just how dire the situation is... I have had a drive failure on a server and I can no longer mount the data partition on the hard drive (/dev/hda5 [ext3 under RH7.3]) because the replacement server (Fedora Core 1) claims that the drive's superblock is toast. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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