Re: AW: Unexpected XFS SB number 0x00000000

Eric Sandeen
2007-12-11T01:26:59Z

Chris wrote:
>> Did your new partition table start in exactly the same place?
>>
>
> I assumed it would be in the same place...
> I guess there is no way to find out what the old one looked like?
>
>> Can you find the string "XFSB" anywhere near where your old partition
>> started?
>>
>
> I can try to do so...how? :)
> When I look into the partition with cfdisk, I can see what
> cylinders/heads/sectors it uses. But I'm sure there are other tools?
>
> Interestingly, after a reboot cfdisk shows me a 801575.31 MB partition and
> 2199023.26 MB free space, although I wrote a single partition of 3000598.57
> MB into the table before rebooting.

fat partitions can't be > 2T

-Eric