filesystem weirdness :(

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Author: James Mabry
Date:  
New-Topics: Redhat 7.3 boot up problems
Subject: filesystem weirdness :(
James Mabry wrote:

> Hey all,
> I'm using Debian unstable and have been very pleased as I have not run
> into many problems...until now.
>
> I wanted to convert my filesystems from ext2 to ext3 so to be safe I
> booted my machine with knoppix. I used tune2fs -j on /dev/hda1 (/) and
> /dev/hda6 (/home) successfully but when I tried it on /dev/hda7 (/usr)
> I got the following error:
>
> "tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> /dev/hda7 couldn't find valid filesystem superblock."
>
> I thought I specified the wrong device but /usr is in fact /dev/hda7.
> I booted back into my normal debian install (no longer using knoppix)
> and was very surprised to see that only /dev/hda1 (/) was mounted yet
> I was still able to access /home and /usr! What's going on here :(!?!
>
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Grrr....I believe I just figured it out as my root filesystem is 965MB.
I must have hastily skipped over assigning /home and /usr extra
partitions so everything ended up on hda1...oh well *fires up the
installer again* :(.