Re: [linux-audio-user] [OT] disk recovery problem

Hi David,

Maybe worth checking the output of the following commands:

$ df

and

$ fdisk -l /dev/hda

and for good measure look for errors in /etc/fstab

Use *cfdisk* if you need to adjust your partition table.
You would have to be 7334 h@email-addr-hidden to screw up a partition table
using cfdisk.

I can remember once confusing disks and deleting a partition
on the wrong disk. Recreating it with exactly the same
length as the original and the ext2 filesystem popped right
back up.

That is a good argument for printing out a hard copy of all
partition tables.

Joel

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:45:28PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> It is a kind of OT, but I couldn't find any useful information, and
> I already wasted half a day on this problem, so I thought someone here
> would be able to help me.
> It seems like my partition table is messed up, and I am not able to
> mount all my partitions. For example, mount refuse to mount /dev/hda12
> on any directory: when I do a mount -r /dev/hda12 /mnt/tmp, mount tells
> me that hda12 is already mounted, or that /mnt/tmp is busy. The
> partition is not mounted for sure, and I tried several other tempory
> locations, without any success. The "funny" part is that a fsck.ext3
> /dev/hda12 doesn't give me any error when I check the filesystem (which
> let me some hope about the possible recovery).
>
> Basically, I think the problem is only coming from a wrong partition
> table, but I don't know how to recover the good beginning/end of the
> partitions (the partitions used for the OS itself seem OK, my linux is
> works flawlessly, "only" my last data partitions are not accessible
> anymore). All my partitions are ext3.
>
> Thank, and my apologies for the OT,
>
> David

-- 
Joel Roth