Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure

[John Summerfield]

Doug Purdy wrote:
> Le mar 16/10/2007 à 05:03, David Timms a écrit :
>> OK, good work. It seems:
>> - sdb1 is marked with a partition type ext2, but hasn't been formatted 
>> with that file system yet. To be sure, perhaps try fsck.vfat and others, 
>> which should also fail... If so depending on the size you might like to 
>> make this your /home partition. Another alternative is to mark it as 
>> LVM, then add it to the VG0, and then extend an existing or add a new LV 
>> within that space.
> 
> Thanks for sticking with me Dave. I tried fsck with vfat, msdos, ntfs,
> reiser, ext 2 & 3 to no avail. I got the list of superblocks for block
> sizes 1024, 2048 and 4096 but they didn't help either.

This is my favourite way of finding what's on an unknown disk:
08:05 [summer at numbat ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/hda1 count=20 | file -
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
10240 bytes (10 kB) copied, 0.000206112 seconds, 49.7 MB/s
/dev/stdin: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)


oddly, this fails here if I give file more data!. It also does not 
recognise LVMs.

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