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.) > > Before reiserfs, jfs, xfs, and ext3 the only filesystem I ever saw > supported was ext2 going back to my first slackware 3.2 install in '96. > there was the UMSDOS stuff too, but I never knew anyone that used it, > and that resided on a fat partition anyways.
Oh, if you were unlucky you had to deal with ext, xiafs, or minix. > > racking my brain (what there is left of it) i stir no memory of > > anything unusual, file-system-wise. i'm just about certain that > > all three of these partitions would be the same file system. > > > > yet /dev/hdb2 mounts like a charm. > > 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. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
