On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:17:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote: > > will trillich said: > > > files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than > > > september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive* > > > i've never even tried reiserfs, certainly not two-and-a-half > > > years ago. wasn't ext2 the default for formatting under the > > > potato or slink install? (as i recall, potato would start out as > > > ext2 and then offered an ext3 option later... nope, ext3 didn't > > > work either.) > > > I'd try what another poster suggested, try the debian slink rescue disks. > > or just format it and forget about it, if you haven't needed the data > > on that disk for 2 years you probably won't miss anything :) > > IMO, the OP's problem is the screwy geometry. Note that the only > partition that could be mounted was the one which ended on a proper > boundary.
tell me some more about this, if you don't mind. <reveal hardwareignorance=tautologicallyobvious> my bios auto-detect persistently came up with a value that was just ONE away from what was labelled on the drive itself; maybe that's what screwed me up... </reveal> -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #100 from Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking for a way to CREATE A PAGE OF LINKS to all the */index.html that already exist in your /usr/share/doc tree? #!/bin/sh # as /usr/doc contains lots of symlinks to /usr/share/doc, adding # -follow to find args may be useful. { echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"' echo '"http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/strict.dtd">'; echo '<html><head><title>Documentation Links</title></head><body>'; find /usr/doc -name index.html \ -printf '<href="file:%p">%P</a><br>\n'; echo '</body></html>'; } > links.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]