scripsit Robert Wultsch: > James Mabry wrote:
>
> >>"tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> >>/dev/hda7 couldn't find valid filesystem superblock."
>
> The greatest reason that linux is better than anything else:
>
> Error messages!
Quite right. That is one of the reasons Linux is better than anything
else on the desktop. Even if I haven't the foggiest idea what it's on
about (because of my own lack of knowledge) I greatly appreciate
detailed, informative error messages. I could use a Mac and get `Error
No -237' and a little bomb graphic, or I could use Windows and get my
favourite `An error occurred'...
> What is a magic number? Who though of such a stupid term?
I assume it's the same thing on a superblock as on a file: a
distinctive byte pattern that lets you recognize what type of file or
filesystem you're looking at. man file and man magic for more
information...
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Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus.
Thanasis Kinias
tkinias at asu.edu
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
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