> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:01:31 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Tom Tom Tom <dumbkid@wt.net>
>
> I have a mail spool drive w/ corrupted super-block
> and don't know how to recovery the data.
>
> How did it get corrupted? That's actually important for trying to
> figure out how to fix it.
No idea, it just happened after an unproper shutdown (power cable
was pulled off accidentally)
>
> Tried "e2fsck -b <8192*[1-20]+1> /dev/sdb1" and same "bad
> magic number " error.
>
> Are you sure the partition table didn't get fried, or that something the
> beginning of the partition got changed? If so that would explain the
> symptoms that you've described.
The partition is find, I can still see the partition using
fdisk.
Regards,
Tom
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