Re: [newbie] Strange Problem Need help from Mandrake soft

[Wilhelm Bertalan]

Jeanette Russo wrote:
> 
>  Can someone give me the right syntax to replace the superblock using
> ex2fsck?
> I think its the -b switch but I have tried
> ex2fsck -b /dev/hda5
> and this does not work.  I would like to try this one last thing before
> giving up to replace the superblock?

According to one of my books (luckily I´ve never had to try it myself)
it should be:

e2fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/hda5

this will use the superblock-backups which are found at 8193, 16385 ...

f is to"force" the check, as the backups are hopefully ok.

HTH

Willy