On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:53 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > Alas, no joy. > FC8 keeps telling me bad magic number > in superblock and puts me in repair mode. > Knoppix likes the partition just fine. > It's fsck declares it clean. > FC8's fsck declares it has a bad magic number. > FC8 used to like it, too. > I copied /home/* to it under FC8. > Knoppix can read the result, as could FC8. > > What is going on? > What can I do about it? > > Here are the partition tables: > root@Knoppix:/media# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 28449 14337981 c W95 FAT32 > (LBA) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda2 28449 28643 97776 83 Linux > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda3 28643 45307 8398656 83 Linux > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda4 45307 77545 16248235+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 45307 49182 1952968+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/hda6 49182 62358 6640672+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 62358 77545 7654500 83 Linux > Howcome your first three partitions do not end on a cylinder boundary? That is a deal breaker in my mind. -- ======================================================================= Hello... IRON CURTAIN? Send over a SAUSAGE PIZZA! World War III? No thanks! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
