Recover Corrupted Partition From A Bad Superblock

1. Find a backup superblock using newfs command

Example

newfs -N /dev/sda2

OR

dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep superblock

2. Now you have the superblock (if you are lucky). Recover the superblock.

fsck -b /dev/sda2

Example

fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda2

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