recovering from superblock

[Rick Stevens]

invincible invincible invincible wrote:
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> hi all.
> 
> is there a way to recover a superblock and inodes if they got currupted somehow.

"fsck -b 16384 devicename" will fsck using one of the alternate
superblocks.  You can use "-b 16384", "-b 32768", etc.  Generally
there's a superblock on multiples of 16384 for most filesystems.
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