From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Chris <hsvchris@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: AW: Unexpected XFS SB number 0x00000000
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:26:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <475DE745.9040907@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003401c83b8e$84c1d730$8e458590$@de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-10 21:33 Unexpected XFS SB number 0x00000000 Chris
2007-12-10 22:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-12-11 0:41 ` AW: " Chris
2007-12-11 1:26 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-12-11 1:06 ` Chris
2007-12-11 2:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-12-10 22:55 ` Justin Piszcz
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