Fix bad superblock on logical partition
- by Chris
I was following http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resi...xt3_partitions and when i reboot and run:
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# fsck -n /dev/sda7
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda7
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
so i ran e2fsck with all the block numbers that you need (forget exactly what tool i used to find where the superblocks are hidden) no dice
then i ran testdisk and had it look for the superblock, no results
anyone have any ideas?
fdisk -l for reference:
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x97646c29
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 64 512000 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 64 38912 312046593 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 64 326 2104320 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 * 327 2938 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2938 38912 288968672+ 83 Linux
To be honest it looks like I lost it... Next step if that happens is to dump the partition to an image file and hope i can find or write some software to parse through the data looking for known file headers, i think.