[ale] Superblock recovery - Revisited

Preston Boyington PBoyington at polyengineering.com
Tue May 3 14:49:12 EDT 2005


I took a minute and ran fdisk -l /dev/sda on the USB drive I am having a problem with and it returned these results:
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Disk /dev/dsa : 15.1GB 15103033344 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 14403 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot	Start	End	Blocks		Id	System
/dev/sda1	1	14003	14339056	c	W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2	14004 	14003	409600		83	Linux

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What I thought was odd was the "Start / End" on /dev/sda2.  It looks like it starts after it ends.  Is this something to do with the partitioning scheme or something with fdisk (used fdisk on Knoppix 3.6)?

QTParted shows /dev/sda1 to be "unknown" type.  How is fdisk recognizing it as FAT32 (which is correct) if QTParted doesn't understand how to read the partition (which was originally made with QTParted)?

Any of this look odd to anyone else?

Preston



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