Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:38:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: mike_st@iah.com (Mike Stubblefield) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrong Magic Number ? Huh? Message-ID: <199903121838.NAA01036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000701be6cab$04a54520$0f112bcf@zeus.iah.com> from Mike Stubblefield at "Mar 12, 99 11:08:50 am"
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[Note tat your MUA mangled your outgoing mail. Each paragraph is a single line.] Mike Stubblefield wrote, > I just installed freebsd 3.1 on a new server. I used a virgin disk to install it to thus leaving the old disks under linux alone. > > When I got the system updated and working, I wanted to re-mount some of the older ext2fs partitions to get files off of them. I could mount all of the old partitions except one -- of course it is the one I need. the drive device name is: wd3s4. If I try a mount command as : > > mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd3s4 /mnt > > I get a message which says: > Wrong Magic Number - C233 (expected ef53 for ext2fs) This 'slice 4' wouldn't actually happen to be an extended partition? What does 'fdisk' for wd3 return for a geometry? Extended partitions start numbering at wd3s5 if that is indeed the problem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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