Hi, After a power failure, I can't mount one of my partitions anymore. Here is what I get from fsck: -- fsck.ext3 /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> -- I tried to give the suggested superblock as parameter but I get the same error message. And with dumpe2fs and tune2fs as well. Since I can't get the backup-superblock positions with dumpe2fs, I used a block size of 1K and tried all the supposed-to-be backup superblocks but it does not help. Is there anything I can try to mount the partition again? Cheers, NiCd