[ale] missing superblock after upgrade

[Dow Hurst]

Now that is weird and reminds me of my problem with the IDE drive.  I 
think they are multiples of 4096 or 8192.  The ext2 or ext3 man pages 
ought to tell the distance apart.
dow


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>I just upgraded my home computer to Mandrake 10.1.  It appeared to go well, 
>but upon reboot it was unable to mount my /usr/local partition (/dev/hdb3).  
>I can't imagine how that got messed up as I wouldn't expect the upgrade to 
>even touch that partition, much less write to it.
>
>Anyway, fsck complains that it can't find a superblock for it (it is supposed 
>to be ext3) and that I should try another block.
>
>Is there any way to figure out where the superblocks are?  The error message 
>suggested trying 8192, or some such, but that didn't work.  Are there some 
>common alternate superblocks?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael
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