I just ran gparted on /dev/sda and it lists sda1 as an unknown filesystem. It is 27Gigs /dev/sda3 is about 10 gigs and then the swap is 1 gig. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 says Bad magic number in super-block while trying to > open /dev/sda1 > out of curiosity I decided to run this with my other partitions and all of > them returned the bad magic number error except sda3 (that is my clones > drive. sda2 is swap. > > And I ran this command: > > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null;dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null > > and the reply was: > > > 55285760+0 records in > 55285760+0 records out > 28306309120 bytes (28GB) copied, 908.02 s, 31.2 MB/s > 781250000+0 records in > 781250000+0 records out > 400000000000 bytes copied...... > > so what? is this hexadecimal or something? > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:06 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com < > kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: > >> What does: >> tune2fs -l /dev/sdaN >> says? >> ET >> >> > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: