Hi,
Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at
explaining things.
/dev/hda1 is winxp
I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition
Then comes Debian:
/dev/hda5 is swap
/dev/hda7 is /home (ext3)
/dev/hda6 is / (and everything else) (ext3)
There are no other unused partitons or unpartitioned
space.
Grub boots from MBR into either Debian
(hda6,(hda7,hda5)) or winxp (not very often) without
any problems - appears to be fully functional.
My other Debian system is on /dev/hdb1.
>From there, or from a knoppix livecd, I can mount
/dev/hda7 but /dev/hda6 will not mount (sorry I can't
remember the error message and I am not at home right
now to reproduce it).
The reason for mounting these partitions is to backup
stuff from /etc, /usr, /var, etc, in case of problems!
After failing to mount I ran fdisk to check for more
information and discovered that:
'Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.'
Would mkfs destroy the data on the partition?
Cheers,
David
david cuthbertson wrote:
> Hi,
> Mounting /dev/hda2 or /dev/hda6 to backup my
> hard-drive fails. /dev/hda7 mounts OK.
>
> Running fdisk I get:
>
> Command (m for help): p
> Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id
> System
> /dev/hda1 1 13564 6836224+
7
> HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 13579 39701 13165267+
5
Note carefully where /dev/hda2 starts and ends.
> Extended
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda5 37772 39701 971901
82
> Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/hda6 * 13579 25676 6096604+
83
Note carefully where /dev/hda6 starts and ends
> Linux
> /dev/hda7 25676 37772 6096636
83
> Linux
Note carefully where /dev/hda7 starts and ends
/dev/hda2 is an *extended* partition. That means that
it
is a chunk of disc which has been reserved to create
other partitions in it. It cannot be used as a
partition
itself. Both /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7 are *part* of
/dev/hda2.
I don't know what you have done with your mounts,
since
you didn't show them, but you might try mounting
/dev/hda6,
it might have a file system in it. If it doesn't, then
you could try mkfs and then mount /dev/hda6
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