On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich said: > > ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to > > use it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody > > server...) > > what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot mount? Try > running a read-only pass on them. I can't imagine why the > newer kernel would be unable to mount a slink partition(though > I can see it happening the other way around), though I haven't > personally tried it.
root: /mnt# e2fsck /dev/hdb1 e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1 root: /mnt# e2fsck /dev/hdb5 e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb5 N.B. an earlier thread noticed "bad magic" mentioned at or before LILO, so it may have been this type of thing (certainly not the file-detector 'magic number' theory)... files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive* i've never even tried reiserfs, certainly not two-and-a-half years ago. wasn't ext2 the default for formatting under the potato or slink install? (as i recall, potato would start out as ext2 and then offered an ext3 option later... nope, ext3 didn't work either.) > and partition type 83 is linux yes, but it's just a partition type, > many kinds of filesystems can reside in there. racking my brain (what there is left of it) i stir no memory of anything unusual, file-system-wise. i'm just about certain that all three of these partitions would be the same file system. yet /dev/hdb2 mounts like a charm. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #76 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To SEARCH THE CONTENTS OF A TAR.GZ file without having to extract everything: tar -tzf file.tar.gz | grep something Also try zcat. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]