Mounting ext2 or ext3 filesystem fails with "Bad superblock" related errors
Issue
- Mount of ext2 or ext3 file system fails with "Bad Superblock" related errors
- Some data at the very begining of the partition the file system resides on may have been over-written
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or above
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