[cfgeeks] Bad SuperBlock - iFolder Answer....

[Dave Hudson]

I assumed that was what YaST repair was doing... but all my data is gone..

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From: Kevin Korb [mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:59 PM
To: cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org
Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] Bad SuperBlock - iFolder Answer....

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If it was just a bad super block you can fix that by telling fsck to use
one of the many alternate super blocks.  Of course whatever corrupted the
first super block may have trashed them or the data too.

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:57:15 -0500
"Dave Hudson" <cfg at davehudson.net> wrote:

> Two items in this thread:
> 
> 1)  I have never had this happen before. I have a VM running OpenSuse
> 11.1. For some reason, when I rebooted the server, it came back with "bad
> superblock" on my secondary SCSI drive (SDB1).  I lost everything on the
> disk.. why would this happen?  I tried to recover it using YaST and all
> it did was restore the partition, but I lost all the data.
> 
> 2) The server mentioned above was my iFolder server... guess that
> answered my previous question about whether or not to pay $50 a year for
> another service to do it.. If I was counting on ifolder, I just lost
> everything, and syncing 10gb over my parents 1mb connection would
> literally take weeks..
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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