That's right ET! I am very bad! I need to be punished. NOt by you though. Find me a cute Asian chick to.... ohhhh... I need to get my mind out of the gutter!

Anyways:
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:
which means bad disk. Right?
Wrong...
It means "Bad operator", don't blame the tools...   :)
What does:
tune2fs -l /dev/sdaN
says?
ET