MPS WebCrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, my question is now "how do I mount it?". I want to mount the mirror
>of the "/" partition from inside dev/sda2. Does me a lot of good having a
>backup when I can't get inside it!
Huh? I'm not following you. Your partition table looks like this
according to fdisk:
>Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1112 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/sda1 * 1 1046 8401963+ 83 Linux
>/dev/sda2 1047 1112 530145 5 Extended
>/dev/sda5 1047 1112 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda1 is a regular Linux ext2 partition and I would *guess* that it's
probably mounted as "/"
/dev/sda2 is an extended partition or to put it another way a "container"
for other partitions. You can't directly mount it. Notice the start
cylinder of 1047 and the end cylinder of 1112.
/dev/sda5 is a logical partition, type 82 (Linux swap), contained within
/dev/sda2. Notice the start/end cylinder values equal those of the
extended partition. This means the swap partition is using all the
available space in the extended partition. I'm also guessing that it's
already mounted as your swap partition. Therefore, there's nothing left to
mount on this disk. If this is your boot disk then perhaps your mirror of
"/" is on a different physical drive? If there's more than one disk in the
box run the same "fdisk -l" command on it - perhaps that's where your
missing mirror is.
-Eric
Eric Sisler
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Westminster, CO, USA
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