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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Corrupted Filesystem * IDEAS *
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Date: 5 May 90 20:56:03 GMT
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rick@crash.cts.com (Rick Stout) writes:
>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


Or if a bad spot manifests itself at the first superblock.
 
     // JCA

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