There's a way to fix this. Googling for "Bad magic number" and "super-block" should bring something up...
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:58, will trillich wrote: > 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. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
