On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:49:27 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs <sz...@si...> wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Richard Russon wrote:
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>> > Note "file /dev/hdb10" may still tell you ext3.
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>> It won't. The magic for ext2/3 is at offset 1080, which should be
>> overwritten by $Boot.
>>
>> Also, in my magic file (FC4), it matches Windows boot sectors before
>> ext2/3. It _really_ seems like the partition hasn't been formatted.
>
> Absolutely. Either nothing or another was formatted. Happens sometimes.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you have any info about that? Any pointer?
-Enrique
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