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ext3-fs: unable to read superblock Error

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slen

IS-IT--Management
Jun 6, 2002
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CA
Hey All

I have a bit of a situation here. I have lost a RAID 0 Array that holds my / I have been able to boot into single user mode which gives me a prompt that looks like the following.

(RAID Repair) 1 #

Never seen that before thankfully....;)

This is my setup...

Redhat 7.3
3 SCSI drives
1 standalone with / filesystem
2 in RAID 0 Array with / sytem

I have tried a fsck on /dev/md0 as well as the specific drives that make up the array /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 which all point to a bad superblock.

What I'd like to know is how can I repair or replace this superblock and can I do this WITHOUT loss of the info on the /
Thanks all

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