From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id lBB1QrD9005610 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:26:55 -0800 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4AB45468342 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id BRg3RdE14tDwlKJT for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:27:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <475DE745.9040907@sandeen.net> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:26:29 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: AW: Unexpected XFS SB number 0x00000000 References: <002a01c83b74$52060330$f6120990$@de> <475DC056.3000502@sandeen.net> <003401c83b8e$84c1d730$8e458590$@de> In-Reply-To: <003401c83b8e$84c1d730$8e458590$@de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Chris Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com 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