[Nottingham] Filesystem Death

[Philip Scott]

Greetings,

> Bleh. I'm not a filesystem expert, but you could try replacing the
> superblock with one of the backup copies (assuming that works at all).
> I always thought "bad blocks" was something below filesystem level (as
> controlled by the 'badblocks' binary).

Thanks for your reply;
Yes, I had already managed what you suggested; the superblock was the easy 
bit; there are lots of copies of it dotted around the disk :) What I am in 
need of is a root directory inode, and I fear there was only one of those!

Regards,
Philip