Hi all, I have a mail spool drive w/ corrupted super-block and don't know how to recovery the data. During e2fsck on the /dev/sdc1 , it said "bad magic number in super-block" I made a mirror drive "dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb" and after I "mke2fs -S /dev/sdb1; e2fsck -y /dev/sdb1" I can mount the drive and see the content. However after reboot, the drive (/dev/sdb1) goes back to "bad magic number in super-block" and after that, I do "dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb" again, and then do mke2fs -S and e2fsck the partition again. But this time, I got lots of "Group xxx's inode bitmap (xxxx) is bad. Relocate? yes" and after seeing "Bad block 0 used as bad block indirect block?!?", it loops back to beginning ... and I can never make it work again. Tried "e2fsck -b <8192*[1-20]+1> /dev/sdb1" and same "bad magic number " error. Any idea on how to recovery the drive? Is there any tools available to do this? Thanks in advance. Regards, Tom P.S. System: SMP PII450 - kernel 2.0.36 - adaptec 2940uw -====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====- to unsubscribe email "unsubscribe linux-admin" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the linux-admin FAQ: http://www.kalug.lug.net/linux-admin-FAQ/
