Ross Walker wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Chan Chung Hang > Christopher<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > > Question now is, was the first sector of partition 1 damaged (was it > 63 or 64 sectors dd'd)? > > If so it will require a more tricky procedure to fix. No, the ext2 file system does not use the first 1K block of the partition. That space is left free for a boot loader. The first super block of the file system is the 2nd 1K block of the partition, and even if that gets overwritten it is easily recovered from one of the backup super blocks. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.