linux ext2

Linux: Recover Corrupted Partition From A Bad Superblock

by Vivek Gite on August 15, 2008 · 24 comments

Q. How can I Recover a bad superblock from a corrupted ext3 partition to get back my data? I’m getting following error:

/dev/sda2: Input/output error
mount: /dev/sda2: can’t read superblock

How do I fix this error?

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How to: Find the inode size of an ext2 / ext3 filesystem

by Vivek Gite on November 9, 2007 · 6 comments

Q. I need to find out inode size of my ext3 file system for recovery purpose. How can I find the inode size of an ext2/ext3 filesystem? A. You need to use tune2fs command, which allows the system administrator to adjust various tunable filesystem parameters on Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems. Find the inode size of the [...]

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