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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bad magic number in super-block Post 43188 by Jay on Wednesday 12th of November 2003 06:22:45 PM
Old 11-12-2003
Ok I'm getting really confused what has gone on with my system. I have been running mandrake on my system for over 6 months with no problem using the following fstab configeration:

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devts mode 0620 00
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /home/jay/windows/c: ntfs
/dev/hda6 /home/jay/windows/e: ntfs
/mnt/cdrom (etc)
/mnt/floppy (etc)
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

As I was getting the super-block error against hda8 I commented it out of the fstab.

As a last ditch attempt to get it working for some reason I decided to mount hda8 manually. I tried manually mounting it as ntfs and it mounted?? Checked what was on there and it was my windows e: drive?? For some reason the following has changed from:

hda1 = NTFS c:
hda2 = ??
hda5 = ext3 / (root)
hda6 = NTFS e:
hda7 = Swap swap
hda8 = ext3 /home

to:

hda1 = NTFS c:
hda2 = ??
hda5 = ext3 / (root)
hda6 = Not sure (Swap?? not mount yet so not 100% sure)
hda7 = ext3 /home
hda8 = NTFS e:

How has the above changed?? Possible because I installed Partition magic 8?? Although I installed it, it was only to create rescue disk to fix someone else computer as I needed to save some data for them. All I did was go into the program but never modified anything!!

Can anyone shed any light on this?
 

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NTFS-3G.PROBE(8)					      System Manager's Manual						  NTFS-3G.PROBE(8)

NAME
ntfs-3g.probe - Probe an NTFS volume mountability SYNOPSIS
ntfs-3g.probe <--readonly|--readwrite> volume DESCRIPTION
The ntfs-3g.probe utility tests a volume if it's NTFS mountable read-only or read-write, and exits with a status value accordingly. The volume can be a block device or image file. OPTIONS
Below is a summary of the options that ntfs-3g.probe accepts. -r, --readonly Test if the volume can be mounted read-only. -w, --readwrite Test if the volume can be mounted read-write. -h, --help Display help and exit. EXAMPLE
Test if /dev/sda1 can be mounted read-write: ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/sda1 EXIT CODES
The exit codes are as follows: 0 Volume is mountable. 11 Syntax error, command line parsing failed. 12 The volume doesn't have a valid NTFS. 13 Inconsistent NTFS, hardware or device driver fault, or unsetup SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. 14 The NTFS partition is hibernated. 15 The volume was not cleanly unmounted. 16 The volume is already exclusively opened and in use by a kernel driver or software. 17 Unsetup SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. 18 Unknown reason. 19 Not enough privilege to mount. 20 Out of memory. 21 Unclassified FUSE error. KNOWN ISSUES
Please see http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html for common questions and known issues. If you think you have found an undocumented problem in the latest release of the software then please send an email describing it in detail. You can contact the development team on the ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net address. AUTHORS
ntfs-3g.probe was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka@ntfs-3g.org). THANKS
Alon Bar-Lev has integrated the utility into the NTFS-3G build process and tested it with Erik Larsson before the public release. SEE ALSO
ntfs-3g(8) ntfs-3g.probe 2010.3.6 January 2008 NTFS-3G.PROBE(8)
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