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#! rnews 970 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!not-for-mail From: Pat McPartland <mcp@shockwave.blast.net> Subject: Bad Super Block Wrong magic number Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Reply-To: mcp@shockwave.blast.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MAFA Message-ID: <3198CC8C.1CC3@shockwave.blast.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 832094072/25790 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 204.141.163.55 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 18:10:20 GMT Lines: 5 My system crashed while trying to do a dump to the tape drive. I get a "bad super block magic number wrong" message that fsck can't fix. Is there a way to fix this without killing all my files? Pat McPartland