Are you fscking the correct device? Is it possible you're not specifying the
correct file system type (ie.n ext3, xfs)?

That failing, if you can't mount the device for backing up, you are pretty much
S.O.L. Sorry.

The next thing for you to do is figure out why and how it became corrupted.




On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:17:20 +0200 "pablo" <pablok@exeit.removethis.demon.nl>
wrote:

> Dear Newsgroupers,
>
> On our school we have a mandrake 8.2 server running. Since yesterday we have
> serious troubles.
> We can only get into the system via failsafe.
>
> It seems the filesystem is corrupted and in dmesg we find the advise to do
> e2fsck.
> When we try that we get the message
> "Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open. Could not find valid
> filesystem superblock."
>
> How can you retrieve the superblock information.
>
> And could a raid-controller faillure (Adaptec raid-controllers) be the cause
> of that?
> If so, how can you find the configuration of the raid devices?
>
> TIA,
>
> pablo k
>
>
>


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