14 Dec
2001
14 Dec
'01
10:29 a.m.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, erle wrote:
now when you format a disk.. as usual superblock backups are stored at veriuos locations inside the Hdd. mke2fs usually spits out a series of numbers related to where it has stored these backups.. _ SAVE THIS _ most ignore.
Having ignored it, is it now possible to get it after the format (but before the crash)? If there isn't a utility to do it, there should be one. I suppose the algo they use to determine where to store the superblocks should be documented somewhere. If not, it shouldn't be too hard to look at the source of mke2fs to determine it.
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Vinay Pai vinay@vinaypai.com
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