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  • From: "Alejandro Lieber" <dos AT lieber.com.ar>
  • To: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: [BL] Re: superblock locations
  • Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:05:45

Sindi:

Yesterday night, I formated again hda2, and loaded again my BL3
backup from a loop.

You are right about small HD. I have a 52Mby working in my office, 9
hours a day for more than 12 years.

In this machine I have a 250Mby drive, 15Mby for Linux, a 6Mby swap
and the rest for PC-DOS.

I am writing to Nacho in Mexico, about a Spanish distribution.

Thanks a lot.

On 1 Mar 05 at 4:04, sindi keesan wrote:

> I just deleted and remade an empty partition of 1.5GB. Fdisk told me the
> superblock backup copies are at:
>
> 32768
> 98304
> 163840
> 229376
> 294912
>
> Apparently I was wrong about adding the 1, or maybe some drives are
> different.
>
> So try these before you give up.
>
> If your drive is smaller the superblocks will probably be at lower
> numbers. You can experiment by mke2fs on a partition the same size as the
> one that is having problems.
>
> I had three drives go bad out of four this week and am learning a lot
> about partitions. One drive shrank from 3.2 to 1.2GB according to the
> BIOS (but the partitions stayed larger than the drive). Two drives in the
> other computer stayed the right size but the last partition on each
> doubled in size. I had to erase all the info on the first computer's
> drive but just the last partition needed to be remade on the other two.
> I have learned to always have a copy of all my files. I lost another
> drive earlier. Only the big ones go bad (1G or more). My 340 and 540
> work perfectly. Same for 1.44K floppy disks - always going bad. The 360K
> fail once or twice a year and I use lots of them. So it might be best to
> put BL3 on the smallest drive where it will fit - 120MB?
>
>
>
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
>

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