Mounting ext2 or ext3 filesystem fails with "Bad superblock" related errors

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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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