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i changed some things in the partition table recently, and oviously i did something i shouldnt have. I dont see a partition that shoud be there in "fdisk", neither can I mount it. the error i get when trying to run fsck:
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>
the filesys should be (is) ext3.
anybody an idea how to repair things now? i tryed with the command "e2fsck -b 8193 <device>" but it didnt work.
do I need to repartition the disk, or can I save the partiton somehow.
The partition may be not "gone", maybe you only killed your superblock. A "backup superblock" can be found at 32768 (if your inode size is 4,096 Bytes). So try e2fsck -b 32768. This will not save your partition, however, you may be able to back up some of your old data before reinstalling the whole thing.
Can be useful if you've got anything important on that disk
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