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Old 24th July 2011
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One last thought -- if you cannot mount successfully with -o force,rdonly due to a "bad superblock" -- the first block of metadata about the filesystem, usually sector #8 within the partition -- the alternate/spare superblock may be usable. This is usually sector #32. See the -b option.
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