Maybe try an fsck on them first? Or could you have used a different filesystem? reiserfs, maybe?
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 15:27, will trillich wrote: > i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and > plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions! > > root# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb > > Disk /dev/hdb: 4956 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > for C/H/S=*/128/63 (instead of 4956/16/63). > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > Units = cylinders of 4128768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 0+ 3 4- 16127+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 4 64 61 245952 83 Linux > /dev/hdb3 65 618 554 2233728 5 Extended > /dev/hdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hdb5 65+ 573 509- 2052287+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb6 574+ 618 45- 181439+ 82 Linux swap > > yes, i know, that's an awful place for the swap partition. i > know, i know. i'm feeling much better now -- this was a few > years back, when i set this puppy up. it sure would be nice to > mount it and recover the things i'm interested in... > > i'll try mounting partitions hdb1, hdb2 and hdb5: > > root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/1/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, > or too many mounted file systems > > hmm! maybe if i leave off the trailing / no the mount-point-- > > root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, > or too many mounted file systems > > nope. let's try partition 2 for fun: > > root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/2 > > no complaints -- IT WORKED? hmm! how about partition 5: > > root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/5 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5, > or too many mounted file systems > > can't mount #1 or #5? but #2 is okay? > > root: /mnt# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 182M 47M 126M 27% / > /dev/hda1 7.6M 5.3M 1.9M 73% /boot > /dev/hda5 228M 203M 13M 94% /home > /dev/hda6 1.8G 828M 953M 47% /usr > /dev/hda7 1.5G 1.4G 133M 92% /var > /dev/hdb2 232M 24M 196M 11% /mnt/2 <== this one's okay > > hdb[125] are all "Linux" filesystem type 83 (ext2, right)? but > only hdb2 would mount? very much odd, here. > > ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to use > it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody server...) -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
