Corrupt Superblock on /home

[James Wilkinson]

Nancy Merckle wrote:
> I tried "mount /dev/hdb1 -vt ext3 /mnt/hdb1" and got
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
<snip>
> I can't remember the command I used next, but I wound up getting the 
> result of a "bad magic number in superblock"

You might like to investigate
mount -vt ext3 -o sb=131072 /dev/hdb1 /misc/
which should use an alternative superblock.

Hope this helps,

James.

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