Re: Help! bad hard disks after power outage

In article <1170979741.286369.135630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<phwashington@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:On Feb 8, 5:49 pm, phwashing...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
:> The power was accidentally shut off to 2 of our file shares. When they
:> were rebooted 2 of the hard drives on 2 different servers could not be
:> mounted.
:> Whenever I try to mount them I get
:> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
:> or too many mounted file systems
:> I'm not sure what happened, but I am wondering if there is anything I
:> can do to try and repair either one of these. One of these was a
:> backup of the other.
:
:What would happen if I just went into fdisk and guessed at the
:partition would there be any chance of retrieval.
:
:I tried e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda
:e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda

Why are you running e2fsck on /dev/sda when the file system in question
is on /dev/sda1 ?

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Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
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