On Tue, 19 May 1998, Todd Hansen wrote:

> caused me to lose the data and my partition table, according to the other
> sys admins here there is no other method that they know of to recover a
> disk with a lost label.

	Tsk, you have unimaginative sysadmins :) - Write a program to
	check for two superblocks 8 sectors apart (or something similar).
	Can quite easily catch each valid filesystem (might be a couple
	of false positives, but generally not) :)

		David/absolute

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