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From: rick@crash.cts.com (Rick Stout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Corrupted Filesystem * IDEAS *
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Date: 5 May 90 15:02:48 GMT
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In article <3295@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>I've yet to see a disk drive without a second superblock at 16 (/etc/fsck -b16)
>
>I've seen plenty of them.
>
>Some of them were running the BSD file system; they had it at 32, not 16.
>

Whats the purpose of a second superblock?
If the first one is corrupted can you boot off the second?

-Rick