From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 10:38:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94118154DD for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:38:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA01036; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:38:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903121838.NAA01036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Wrong Magic Number ? Huh? In-Reply-To: <000701be6cab$04a54520$0f112bcf@zeus.iah.com> from Mike Stubblefield at "Mar 12, 99 11:08:50 am" To: mike_st@iah.com (Mike Stubblefield) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:38:21 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Note tat your MUA mangled your outgoing mail. Each paragraph is a single line.] Mike Stubblefield wrote, > I just installed freebsd 3.1 on a new server. I used a virgin disk to install it to thus leaving the old disks under linux alone. > > When I got the system updated and working, I wanted to re-mount some of the older ext2fs partitions to get files off of them. I could mount all of the old partitions except one -- of course it is the one I need. the drive device name is: wd3s4. If I try a mount command as : > > mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd3s4 /mnt > > I get a message which says: > Wrong Magic Number - C233 (expected ef53 for ext2fs) This 'slice 4' wouldn't actually happen to be an extended partition? What does 'fdisk' for wd3 return for a geometry? Extended partitions start numbering at wd3s5 if that is indeed the problem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message