On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:58:34PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Try: > > > > $ e2fsck /dev/fd0 > > $ dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 | od -c > > > > ...not that I can read all the output, but there should be some > > signature ext2fs stuff in the first block of the disk. > > > > ...and DON'T fsck up that second command or you'll overwrite something. > > You want "if" (infile), not "of" (outfile) specified. > here's the result: > debian:~# e2fsck /dev/fd0 > e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... > e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while > trying to open /dev/fd0 > Could this be a zero-length partition? > > debian:~# dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 | od -c > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 0000000 # T h e b e l o w c o n f > 0000020 i g v a r i a b l e i n f o > 0000040 i s f r o m s e c t i o n
It looks like this floppy doesn't have a file system on it.... like someone made it with "cp filename /dev/fd0" You can't mount such things. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.