<div dir="ltr">It stores them in various places, depending on the size of your filesystem. If your filesystem is large enough (>~ 1/2 GB) you'll probably find it at block #32768. For smaller filesystems, it appears to put the first backup at block # 8193 You can get more details by using the -n option to mkfs. If you used nonstandard options in your original mkfs, you might want to provide those details here, as well. (( -n has mkfs.ext[23] not actually write to the partition but simply say what it WOULD do if it did. )) mkfs -t ext2 -n /dev/mydeice <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:01 PM, John Nelson <<a href="mailto:articpenguin3800@gmail.com">articpenguin3800@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Where does ext3 store the backup superblock? Does it have one at the very beginning of the partition and one at the very end? _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ext3-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">Ext3-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Stephen Samuel <a href="http://www.bcgreen.com">http://www.bcgreen.com</a> 778-861-7641 </div>