> >     Disk /dev/sdc1: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 39082 cylinders
> >     Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
> > 
> >          Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> >     /dev/sdc1p1             1     39082  40019952   83  Linux
> > 
 
> You forgot to create the file system on the disk itself :)

You were quite correct, and now I've got a backup. Thanks to all.

What led me astray was that I apparently originally had a file system
on disk, and I took the above fdisk line to confirm that I did. That
is, I assumed that since fdisk reported the partition as Id 83, I was
in good shape.

Haines

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