Fw: 32k Blocksize Support
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 17:10:10 UTC 2009
D Landy wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>> I don't know if they're using a standard ext3 fs or not; perhaps it is
>> adultrated in some way for their needs that makes it incompatible w/ the
>> upstream tools.
>>
>> You could go through the code to find where that message is printed,
>> then work backwards to why (either via gdb, or printf insertions, or
>> whatever you're comfortable with...)
>
> Thanks, Eric, that's exactly what I've done.
>
> :-)
>
> Unfortunately there are many different error conditions that could result in
> an "invalid superblock" message and it seems like it would be a hard job (at
> least for me!) to work out which one it was as I don't know how to compile a
> package or even how to get the right source code for Puppy Linux (which I
> think is almost Debian compatible).
>
> I guess this is going off-topic now and I should ask on other lists for help
> with that?
>
> Any assistance appreciated.
>
> David
You could make an e2image and hope someone has enough spare time (I'm
afraid I don't at the moment) to take a look. (assuming e2image will
touch it....)
-Eric
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