Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:27:47 -0800 From: Torben Brosten <torben@kappacorp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error when trying to mount ext2fs harddisk, wrong magic nbr?? Message-ID: <3F88E653.7010806@kappacorp.com> References: <3F87F0FD.6000406@kappacorp.com> <3F88680A.8080802@kappacorp.com> <3F88AAD7.4060104@kappacorp.com>
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After reading more man pages and the chapter "Adding a Disk" from UNIX System Administration Handbook, 3rd ed. by Nemieth, Snyder, Seebass and Hein, I realize that this ext2fs harddrive will best be fixed by putting back into a linux environment and proceeding with fdisk + fsck etc. cheers Torben Brosten wrote: > I'm trying to decipher the error message: > > ext2fs: #ad/0x000a: wrong magic number 0x8b6 (expected 0xef53) > > I've been reading > > man magic > man file > > but I have limited C experience. I see the references to ext2 in > /usr/share/misc/magic, particularly: > > >>0x43a leshort ^0x0000001 (mounted or unclean) > > Since 0x8b6 is much greater than 0x43a, am I to conclude that the drive > was umounted incorrectly? If so, is there a way to use 'file' or some > other utility to edit the offending magic number to 0xef53?
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