hard disk failure

[Michael Havens]

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 <bmike1 at 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 at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> What does:
>> tune2fs -l /dev/sdaN
>> says?
>> ET
>>
>>
>


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