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<p>New page: Mount will sometimes fail with the somewhat cryptic error message -- killed. This can be an indication of a bad superblock. Fortunately Linux stores backup copies at 8193, 32768, 98304, 1...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Mount will sometimes fail with the somewhat cryptic error message -- killed. This can be an indication of a bad superblock.<br /> <br /> Fortunately Linux stores backup copies at 8193, 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376 and 294912. ( 8193 in many cases only on older systems, 32768 is the most current position for the first backup ).<br /> <br /> You can view this info by running &lt;code&gt;$ dumpe2fs /dev/sdb1&lt;/code&gt;.<br /> <br /> To fix run<br /> <br /> e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sdb1<br /> <br /> if this doesn&#039;t work you can try 98304 and so on.<br /> <br /> This can recover hard drives that are not accessible by other means.</div>

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