On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:30:05AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: > fdisk'd it OK (one single linux partition), then ran mke2fs -j > /dev/hdb1, which reported no problems. > > Then, to check (because we weren't entirely sure about the provenance > of the drive) I ran fsck, which reported as follows: > > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb
Le me guess: you ran "e2fsck /dev/hdb"? That's wrong, you check the partition, not the drive. Try "e2fsck /dev/hdb1" instead. Cheers, John -- Standing barefoot in a river of clues, most people would not get their toes wet. -- Brian Kantor -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
