will trillich wrote:
Dunno if this is relevant or not, but in the dim recesses of my brain I seem to recall a change in the ext2 File System about the time the kernels changed from 2.0.XX to 2.2.XX. That would definatetly be in the SLINK timeframe, I think. I can recall being asked during the install of POTATO if I wanted to retain "backwards compatability" while formatting...I think. It definately had something to do with how the ext3 FS was stored on the HD.On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote:will trillich said:ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to use it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody server...)what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot mount? Try running a read-only pass on them. I can't imagine why the newer kernel would be unable to mount a slink partition(though I can see it happening the other way around), though I haven't personally tried it.root: /mnt# e2fsck /dev/hdb1 e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1 root: /mnt# e2fsck /dev/hdb5 e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb5 N.B. an earlier thread noticed "bad magic" mentioned at or before LILO, so it may have been this type of thing (certainly not the file-detector 'magic number' theory)... files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive* i've never even tried reiserfs, certainly not two-and-a-half years ago. wasn't ext2 the default for formatting under the potato or slink install? (as i recall, potato would start out as ext2 and then offered an ext3 option later... nope, ext3 didn't work either.)and partition type 83 is linux yes, but it's just a partition type, many kinds of filesystems can reside in there.racking my brain (what there is left of it) i stir no memory of anything unusual, file-system-wise. i'm just about certain that all three of these partitions would be the same file system. yet /dev/hdb2 mounts like a charm.
If it has a full FS on it, could you just try plugging it in and see if it boots? Maybe digging out some old SLINK "rescue" disketts might bring it to life... Just speculating.
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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