>
> Hello,
>
> I made the first step. Here is the last daily report for the FS:
> /dev/sd1a     1994641  1365918   528990    72%    /home

cool. how many partitions you had on that drive?
>
> Now, the result of dumpfs /dev/sd1a
>
> [root@azrael root]$ dumpfs /dev/sd1a | more
> endian  big-endian
> magic   11954   time    Wed Jul 31 10:19:33 2002
> cylgrp  dynamic inodes  4.4BSD  fslevel 3       softdep disabled
> nbfree  156159  ndir    2334    nifree  475699  nffree  4068
> ncg     403     ncyl    6445    size    2062368 blocks  1994641
                                          ^^^^^^^

this is size in kilobytes, disklabel uses sectors = 1/2 kB

so your partition a size is 4124736

if a starts at 0, next partition will start at 4124736

BTW if you have your data here think about buying some backup device.
used SCSI DDS-1 drives cost no more than 150PLN in poland (about 35$).
avoid HP, sony, wangdat works fine. don't forget to get cleaning tape
too!!