On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 20:05, mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know what happened here. > Can I change the Disklabel without messing things up or is it necessary > ? > > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk /dev/sda > Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors > Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3 > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0x64b83d98 > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 497664 243M 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 501758 468860927 468359170 223.3G 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 501760 468860927 468359168 223.3G 8e Linux LVM > > > root@pumpkin:~# e2label /dev/sda > e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda > Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda
You're trying to apply a *filesystem* label to a block *device*. That cannot work. It's hard to know what your goal is there, but perhaps 'e2label /dev/sda1' is what you actually want. The partition information above doesn't suggest any other possibilites that would succeed.
