> which means bad disk. Right? Wrong... It means "Bad operator", don't blame the tools... :) What does: tune2fs -l /dev/sdaN says? ET Michael Havens writes: > 30 gigs is what it was.... that might be bad. I ran it against one > partition rather than the whole disk so it should be smaller... shouldn't > it be? > > another thing.... > I tried to mount sda1 abd it tells me that I need to specify the file type > so I try with ext4, 3, and 2 but they all returned with the same error > (mount: wrong fs type) so I check dmesg|tail and the reply is: > > NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill)super(): Not an NTFS volume. > UDF-fs: No VRS found.... > UDF-fs: rescanning.... > UDF-fs: No VRS found > UDF-fs: No partition found (1) > etc.... > > I get it If you issue the mount caommand it automatically tries to mount > with each filesystem it knows about. So basically all of my filesystems got > erased.... which means bad disk. Right? > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > >> is this a 30GB disk? >> >> if so... This looks perfect. Otherwise, I hope your block size was >> something other than the default 512 bytes. >> >> Kevin >> >> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 11:07 -0700, Michael Havens wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com >> > wrote: >> > Another (NON destructive) check you may to do: >> > as root: >> > dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null >> > Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other >> > error than "read beyond EOF" (or something like that) >> > ET >> > >> > It finished with no error. The return was: >> > >> > 55285760+0 records in >> > 55285760+0 records out >> > >> > Is that a good sign? >> > -- >> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss