On Saturday 11 February 2006 13:00, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 10:14 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 10 February 2006 21:28, James Wilkinson wrote: > > > You might like to investigate > > > mount -vt ext3 -o sb=131072 /dev/hdb1 /misc/ > > > which should use an alternative superblock. > > > > Is anything similar possible on a fat32 drive? I need to try to rescue > > data from a 'foreign' drive. 'fdisk -l' lists it as a single large fat32 > > partition, but trying to mount it as 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp' > > tells me that there is a bad superblock. > > > > Anne > > FAT does not use multiple superblocks like Linux does (ext2/ext3, and > similar filesystems) > > That said, have you tried to run fsck.vfat on the drive? > It might help. I didn't even know you could :-) I don't see any mention of that in the man page. I see that I can pass '-t vfat', though. Anne
