moving /home , no joy

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 5 15:09:57 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:53 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 
> Alas, no joy.
> FC8 keeps telling me bad magic number
> in superblock and puts me in repair mode.
> Knoppix likes the partition just fine.
> It's fsck declares it clean.
> FC8's fsck declares it has a bad magic number.
> FC8 used to like it, too.
> I copied /home/* to it under FC8.
> Knoppix can read the result, as could FC8.
> 
> What is going on?
> What can I do about it?
> 
> Here are the partition tables:
> root at Knoppix:/media# fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1       28449    14337981    c  W95 FAT32
> (LBA)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda2           28449       28643       97776   83  Linux
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda3           28643       45307     8398656   83  Linux
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda4           45307       77545    16248235+   5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           45307       49182     1952968+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/hda6           49182       62358     6640672+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7           62358       77545     7654500   83  Linux
> 
Howcome your first three partitions do not end on a cylinder boundary?
That is a deal breaker in my mind.
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