hmmm, sounds like you 'jostled' your HD when you installed your
RAM. A static discharge perhaps? But that would have fried
everything, so it probably wasn't a static discharge. I believe
your best bet for recovering the old /home is to manually mount
it from the newer installation running from your good HD:
mkdir /home2
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /home2
NOTE: 'hdb3' is provided for example purposes, only. Your mount
command may vary:
hda = IDE primary master
hdb = IDE primary slave
hdc = IDE secondary master
hdd = IDE secondary slave
'hdb3' = IDE primary slave, third partition
HTH,
L.G.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Ken Kirchner wrote:
>
> I just had my /home /var and / partitons vanish from my sight! I was
> installing some memory so I shut down the machine and installed it. When
> I booted back up I got a kernel panic because of some error on device
> 03:05. The drive was partitioned like so:
>
> /dev/hda1 /boot
> /dev/hda2 Extended Partition
> /dev/hda5 /
> /dev/hda6 /home
> /dev/hda7 /var
> /dev/hda8 swap
>
> I am not sure about any of the sizes. I grabbed another hardrive and
> installed a fresh copy of linux so I could mount my hosed drive and see if
> I could recover anything. Once the new install was finished I fdisked the
> hosed drive to see what was going on. hda1 looked ok and the hda2
> extended partition looked ok, but hda5 had some massive blocks assigned to
> it. hda6, 7, and 8 were gone. fdisk also displayed some errors, but would
> allow me to manipulate the partition tables. I went ahead and made hda5
> the entire size of the extended partition. I then mounted it and had a
> look. All of my root partition info seemed to be there, but what I
> really want to salvage is my /home dir. Other than just trying to guess
> where my partitions began and ended, is there some utility out there that
> can scan a drive and look for superblocks or some such? Is there any way
> for me to get back my partitions? Any idea what caused this crap to begin
> with?
>
> It's RH6.2 btw, and yes, I did try removing the memory first.
>
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