Hi Ron and all,
thank you for replying. I would like to know if you agree with an advice I have been given... ----- Original Message ----- ±H¥óªÌ: Ron Heron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What is in your /etc/fstab file? fstab was listed in the original email. Please see below. > Did you by any chance update your kernel? no Actually, since I wrote to you here, I managed to get some help at mandrakeexpert. We still don't know for sure where did the problem come from, we just know that the situation is pretty desperate... Here is the final assessment by a great guy who has tried all he could to help me out to figure out the situation. " dakota : 18/12 07:17 : Reply received you have problems by the looks of what you have given me it appears that your /mnt/windows2 and /home and /files /archives partitions have some how merged and unfortunately to say if that is the case there will be no way to recover the data on them " I would like to ask all the experts on this list: do you agree that my data in the said partitions cannot be recovered? "fdisk is not calling the damaged partitions as seperate partitions it is showng them as one damaged partition meaning any thing you do to fix that partition will loose cause you to loose any data in them.i have done some seaching around on your problem today and at this point have not found a useable fix because your root partion as well is now damaged and with that being said you do not know if they will mount even after the partition table is fixed because for some reason i am beleiveing the problem your haveing is either due to hardware failure or bad blocks on the drive itself." You can see the whole thread here: http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/index1.php?tab=paid&act=view&incident=7114&w=0 Thanks, Anguo > > > > > 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
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