On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Onkar Mahajan <kern.devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC ? How is it arrived at ? There is no formula... it is just an identifier. Most of the times it is the name of filesystem in hex. > I am writing a file system for which I am referring to > the ext3 code... I am not able to arrive at a magic number > for my filesystem.... please help Have you put a name for your filesystem... else you can try 0x6d796673 :-) > > #define EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC 0xEF53 <---- How this is arrived at ? > > > Regards, > Onkar > -- Thanks - Manish ================================== [$\*.^ -- I miss being one of them ================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ