Dear Experts,
I tried to get help on the following topic on the newbie list but my question seems to advanced for the group. I also did some research on google, read some howtos and some mailing list archives but so far, the more I read, the more I am confused. :-( Since the matter involves the potential loss of a large amount of data, I really would care to get some informed advice. Thank you for any help (and thank you anyway if you can't help me or don't have time to... ). :-D (using lm8.1) In the following HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue/x67.html I see that the result of fdisk gives a listing of the following format: Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 153 1228941 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 154 166 104422+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 * 167 291 1004062+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 295 523 1839442+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 295 422 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 423 523 811251 6 FAT16 Mine however looks much stranger: #fdisk -l Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292 610470 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 5 Extended /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 401593+ 82 Linux swap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? 224061 112815 1253901899 29 Unknown I can't use Linux now. Do you know where does the problem come from and how I could solve it??? I just stumbled on this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mandrake-Linux/message/1445 "for my hard drive (hda), I have the following symlinks: /dev/hda ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /dev/hda1 ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /dev/hda2 ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 and so on." but i don't know if it is relevant at all... And also following a link from google, I find this quote: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/SGI/xfs/Release-1.0/RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0/RedHat/RP MS/devfsd-1.3.11-sgi.i386.html "(DiskDrake won't like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 instead of /dev/hda1 ...)" I used diskdrake to add one partition and my problems started (not immediately) after that... The rest of the page doens't give anything helpful though... I am puzzleder and puzzleder. thanks, Anguo Below is the background information from my previous posts. > > Linux doesn't mount /home and other important partitions at boot. It does > > mount / and /usr though... > > It does mount win98 c:/ but not d:/ .... win98 can't read d:/ anymore. > > There seems to be a problem with my partition table... > > > > I am still investigating how I can solve the problem. I found the > partition > > rescue mini howto which may or may not be relevant in my case. > > I'll look more for the answer but if anyone knows where the problem is and > > could give me some pointers, I'd be grateful. > > Would you please post the content of "cat /etc/fstab" > /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda7 /archive ext2 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda9 /files ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows2/ vfat umask=0 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda4 /redhat ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > #df -h > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda2 587M 133M 424M 24% / > > none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.5G 236M 87% /mnt/windows > > /dev/hda4 2.9G 4.0k 2.7G 1% /redhat > > /dev/hda6 5.8G 1.6G 3.9G 29% /usr > > > > > > #fdisk -l > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > > cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > > Id System > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ > > b Win95 FAT32 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292 610470 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 > > 5 Extended > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 401593+ > > 82 Linux swap > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? 224061 112815 1253901899 > > 29 Unknown > > > > #fdisk -l -u > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > > cylinders > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > > Id System > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 63 3470039 1734988+ > > b Win95 FAT32 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 3470040 4690979 610470 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 4690980 45720989 20515005 > > 5 Extended > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 35359065 41495894 3068415 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 4691043 5494229 401593+ > > 82 Linux swap > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 5494293 17767889 6136798+ > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? -695433982 1812369815 > 1253901899 > > 29 Unknown
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