On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> 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?
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