Re: "bad super block" on a partition

[=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Du=9Aan_Smolnikar?= <racer.d@email.si>]

Just wanted to say, I've got my disk back :)
I removed the partition with disklabel and created a new one at the
same offset with the same size. then I ran fsck and after mounting it,
I have all my data back



On Feb 16, 2004, at 09:34, Dušan Smolnikar wrote:

> When I used disklabel to resize my wd0e partition (I had some free
> space left), I ran into a problem. I could't write to wd0g anymore.
> I rebooted in hope it fixes the problem, but the wd0g wouldn't mount
> anymore. Neither would wd0e and wd0f. I get a message "bad super block:
> magic number wrong" and get dropped into a shell. I tried using fsck in
> order to search for new magic blocks, but it found none. I tried giving
> it "-b 32" as recommended in the manual, but it wouldn't accept that.
> I removed wd0e and wd0f, but the problem remains. wd0a and wd0d are
> fine though.
>
> so, what am I to do here? Is there a way to atleast get the data from
> wd0g? I can freely format and reinstall then, but what's on wd0g is
> really important to me.
>
> OpenBSD 3.4, i386