Hi Jen
Booting from the Knoppix disk, run mke2fs -n /dev/hda1" to see where the superblock numbers are located [V.Important note: Make sure you use the -n flag]. Then try running "e2fsck -b<block number>", where the block number is one of the ones from the output of mke2fs - Don't use the first one, try the third or fourth... If all going well, you *should* be able to mount the disk.
Man pages for e2fcsk, mke2fs, and mount should provide additional info if needed.
Regards, Paul.
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:50, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
I appear to have turned my 120G backup server into a giant swap file. I typed mkswap -v1 /dev/hda (may have been hda1) instead of /dev/hda5. I've been battling for a day and am not much further down the line. I'm currently booted into knoppix. I'm trying: root@0[sda5]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1/ -t ext3 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems root@0[sda5]# dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda1 dumpe2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.