roland Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 I didn't know where to post that. Hi, I'm not anonimous I'm roland :( I did it, I damaged my /home partition !! ( fortunately at home not at work ) WARNING If ever DiskDrake displays something like: your partitions had been renumbered: hda5 is now hda4 hda6 is now hda5 ... You must know that: DISKDRAKE THAT IS USUALLY A GOOD SOFTWARE IS NOW A PIECE OF B"#²~ù@T EXIT IMMEDIATELY DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR /etc/fstab AND YOUR /etc/lilo.conf ACCORDING TO THE NEW NUMBER, RUN lilo AND REBOOT ! You have been warned Now the question is: How do I restaure my /home that was on hda6 ????? Do you know a software to restaure a damaged partition ? Help please roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 Did they just get renumbered or is it damaged? If it's renumbered and you need to access fstab, and lilo.conf, boot cd1>F1>rescue>Mount you partitions under /mnt (you'll get a bunch of errors, but hopefully /, and /usr are mounted)> then chroot /mnt and use vi to edit the files, and run lilo -v. If you don't know what they are now, you can use parted (on the cd's) or I think fdisk -l will tell ya. If damaged, you'll need to run the prog for you type partition (fsck, reiserfsck, etc...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted September 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 Did they just get renumbered or is it damaged? If it's renumbered and you need to access fstab, and lilo.conf, boot cd1>F1>rescue>Mount you partitions under /mnt (you'll get a bunch of errors, but hopefully /, and /usr are mounted)> then chroot /mnt and use vi to edit the files. Only /home partition ( now hda6 ) had been damaged. On DiskDrake: Before the change it was like this: hda1 Windows empty space hda6 swap hda7 / ext3 hda5 /home ext3 After the change it's like that hda1 Windows hda5 (was empty space) hda7 swap hda8 / ext3 hda6 /home ext3 I had trouble formating hda5 but no messages. I exited DiskDrake, modified fstab and lilo.conf, run lilo and rebooted. But now hda6 is damaged. didn't want to mount. I let fsck run at boot time when I was asked. Now hda6 wants only to be mounted as ext2 and is empty !! If you don't know what they are now, you can use parted (on the cd's) or I think fdisk -l will tell ya. If damaged, you'll need to run the prog for you type partition (fsck, reiserfsck, etc...) Thanks I'll try parted. If I run fsck /dev/hda it says its clean fsck.ext3 /dev/hda: same DiskDrake now see hda6 as a ext3 but I can't mount it as ext3. Only as ext2. ?? Other ideas after the info I give here ? thanks roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted September 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 The only idea I have now is to run parted mkfspart to force the partition being ext3 as it is supposed to be, next run parted rescue. I have little hope it will work. I will wait a few days before doing that, hoping for more ideas . Anyway that's not a drama if I lose all, I will not spend €1000 to fix the partition. Ok, I've played so much with partitions before and never lost any byte that this time I was may be too confident. So until I prove there is something wrong with DiskDrake it's still right.(I'm going to do some test in a few days) If you know a software other than fsck or parted to fix partitions I'm still interested. Thanks roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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