Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Ext2 failure question | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:46:05 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jan Kara <jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> said:
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> > Then I checked with fdisk to make sure that it was indeed in ext2, > > and it was. Mount seemed to complain about a corrupted superblock. First > > of all, is there anyway to bring this partition back (after all, aren't > > superblocks suposed to copy themselves all over the disk?).
Note that DOS has the nasty habit of recording the partition size inside the partition, and using _that_ size instead of the value in the partition table. So it happyly tramples over later partitions if you aren't careful at setting it up. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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