On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 15:59 +0200, Walter Mueller wrote:
> Brian D. McGrew writes:
> > When you do a newfs manually, you get a nice list of all the
> > superblocks, which I cheerfully save for every node I build.
> >
> > However, when you do an install from the CD's and the volumes are
> > created fro you, there is no superblock list. How would one go about
> > finding the backup superblocks on a disk???
> >
> > :b!
> $ man mke2fs
> ...
> -n causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display
> what it would do if it were to create a filesystem. This can be
> used to determine the location of the backup superblocks for a
> particular filesystem, so long as the mke2fs parameters that
> were passed when the filesystem was originally created are used
> again. (With the -n option added, of course!)
> ...
> >
> > Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx }
>
> --
> Walter Müller
>
You can also use dumpe2fs to display the current superblocks.... Look
for lines that declare "Backup superblock"
--Rob
