Re: Unable to align partition properly

[Andrew Clausen]

Morten Welinder wrote:
> 
>    Is there an ext2 file system on it?  (i.e. did you run mke2fs?)
>    Parted doesn't display the "partition type"... it displays the
>    detected file system.
> 
> Hmm...  I though I made sure the fdisk ouptut showed that, but yes,
> there is an ext2 fs on minor 1 and it is not being detected by
> parted.  fdisk (linux/dos) and lilo are happy with it.

fdisk doesn't look at file systems.  I presume /dev/hda1 is your
root device?  In this case, it has an ext2 file system ;-)

Could you please send me the first 16k of the file system?

        # dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=16k count=1 | gzip > ext2-start.gz

Thanks
Andrew Clausen