Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > On 04/20/2007 08:50 PM, Anthony J Placilla wrote: dumpe2fs /dev/hdc1 | grep Backup It'll give output something like this: (NB this is *my* box. Your's will be different) root@aplacilla ~]# dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 | grep Backup dumpe2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Backup superblock at 8193, Group descriptors at 8194-8194 Backup superblock at 24577, Group descriptors at 24578-24578 Backup superblock at 40961, Group descriptors at 40962-40962 Backup superblock at 57345, Group descriptors at 57346-57346 Backup superblock at 73729, Group descriptors at 73730-73730 then do e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdc1 obviously you'll need to adjust the argument to -b with a listed backup superblock -- Tony Placilla, RHCT, GSEC anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64