Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:17:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:17:46 -0400 Received: from m2ep.pp.htv.fi ([212.90.64.98]:25360 "EHLO m2.pp.htv.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:17:43 -0400 Message-ID: <000701c0cb58$70373240$6786f3d5@pp.htv.fi> From: "Ville Holma" To: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: a way to restore my hd ? Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:17:05 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thank You everybody who helped me solve the problem. I found a working back-up of the superblock at -b 32768 and was able to save all of my important work from the harddrive. The filesystem was however badly corrupted and lots of other files were truncated after e2fsck had finished. So I ended up just re-installing my linux distribution but didn't loose any valuable work. Lucky me. So, again, Thank You all for the great help I received. You know who you are. Ville > > The memory I had was however somehow corrupt and after I got my new system > > booted up and used it a little it became shaky and then locked hard and I > > could do nothing but reset it. I suppose this was caused by the > > malfunctioning memory but I can't be sure, I know there has been problems > > with the via chipset also. > > Nod > > > debian:~# e2fsck /dev/hdb7 > > e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > Corruption found in superblock. (frags_per_group = 2147516416). > > Try e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb7 > > (and 16384, 32768) > > This is a backup copy of the superblock. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/