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SubjectRe: Ext2 failure question
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Jan Kara <jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> said:

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> > Then I checked with fdisk to make sure that it was indeed in ext2,
> > and it was. Mount seemed to complain about a corrupted superblock. First
> > of all, is there anyway to bring this partition back (after all, aren't
> > superblocks suposed to copy themselves all over the disk?).

Note that DOS has the nasty habit of recording the partition size inside
the partition, and using _that_ size instead of the value in the partition
table. So it happyly tramples over later partitions if you aren't careful
at setting it up.
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