What's a file system's "magic" number in a super block?
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I'm working on a midrange NAS system basically running on Linux and I got to do some great testing today. The step-by-step lead me to using fsdb to corrupt the magic number on a file system in order to corrupt it / test the script that should fix it. I googled around quite a bit and didn't find a s…
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A magic number is a sequence of bytes that is used in all files of a certain format, usually at a given position (often at the beginning). Since all files in that particular format have that particular byte sequence in that particular position, and …
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