Re: mounting ext3 with another superblock doesn't work?

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On Mon, 9 May 2011 15:10:27 +0200, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Well, the block size is most likely the same (4 KB) in both the old
and
> the new fs (unless you tinkered with it but I don't expect that). That
> defines size of a block group and thus position of inodes, bitmaps, etc.
> Another variable is a number of inodes (per group). If you have an old
> superblock you can compare the old and the new number of inodes and you
> can be sure. Otherwise you rely on whether the math in the mkfs with
which
> you've originally created the fs is the same as the math in your current
> mkfs (and you didn't specify any special options regarding this)...

Well I didn't change them but maybe Debian has modified the defaults in
mke2fs.conf since I created the fs initially.
inode_size = 256 could be a candidate. Unfortunately I don't remember
which Debian/e2fsprogs I've used to create the fs originally.

Was this ever set to 128 (i mean as a default for e2fsprogs itself, when
it was not set in mke2fs.conf)?


If the values would have actually changed, wouldn't this mean that all
data was then gone?


Cheers,
Chris
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