Nancy Merckle wrote: > I tried "mount /dev/hdb1 -vt ext3 /mnt/hdb1" and got > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > <snip> > I can't remember the command I used next, but I wound up getting the > result of a "bad magic number in superblock" You might like to investigate mount -vt ext3 -o sb=131072 /dev/hdb1 /misc/ which should use an alternative superblock. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "This thing is bigger than the both of us!" @westexe.demon.co.uk | "Oh Tom! It's ... it's an elephant!"
