From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8950 invoked from network); 12 May 1999 18:08:08 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 May 1999 18:08:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 15087 invoked by alias); 12 May 1999 18:07:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6275 Received: (qmail 15080 invoked from network); 12 May 1999 18:07:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:07:38 -0700 (PDT) From: schaefer@brasslantern.com Message-Id: <990512111331.ZM47328658@199.4.66.76> Reply-To: schaefer@brasslantern.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail for Macintosh (3.3.1 27Mar96) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Disk troubles Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Some software that I installed on my Windows partition somehow managed to trash the superblocks of two of my Linux filesystems. Fortunately, the CVS repository containing my zsh sources is on a separate physical device, so I haven't lost any of 3.0.6. I did, however, lose my build sandboxes for both 3.0.6 and 3.1.5, plus about a dozen recent pieces of zsh-workers mail, which I'll have to try to go find from the archive; and I'm now just over three days behind on email that's arrived since my crash, so it's going to take a while after my machine is back up (I'm having trouble getting the RedHat installer to deal with my ancient SCSI card) to figure out what other recent stuff should go in and get back to a working state. If any of you know of any software that will reconstruct a filesystem with a mangled superblock, please send me a pointer. I've already verified (dd the raw device into fgrep) that most of the data is still there, but I get "bad magic number" when trying to mount it.