Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 10:23, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, civileme wrote: [small snip] And the old adage is still true: Data not backed up is data lost Civileme Civileme, I wish I would have heeded your warning some time back when you warned against using ext3. while

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-11 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 11 Jun 2002, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Civileme, I wish I would have heeded your warning some time back when you warned against using ext3. while it was just a workstation and all the data files are on the server and backed up constantly, ext3 puked the other night and forced a

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-09 Thread Laurent BOULEAU
Hi After trying gpart with no good results, I have downloaded an installed testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html) and e2fsprogs (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net). I've been able to rescue entirely my disk. Tanks a lot to all. Hoyt a écrit : On Thursday 06 June 2002

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-09 Thread James
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:44:43 +0200 Laurent BOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On a mandrake 8.1 with a 40 Go DD, and with this partitions : hda1 : /boot hda5 : swap hda6 : /ext3 hda7 : /usrext3 hda8 : /varext3 hda9 : /homeext3 hda10 : /webext3 hda11 : /mysql

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, civileme wrote: [small snip] And the old adage is still true: Data not backed up is data lost Civileme Civileme, I wish I would have heeded your warning some time back when you warned against using ext3. while it was just a workstation and all the data files are on

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-06 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 06 June 2002 10:23 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: And the old adage is still true: Data not backed up is data lost Civileme Pilots say the two most useless things are the fuel they left on the ground and the altitude above them. For us, I suppose it's security updates we didn't

[expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-05 Thread Laurent BOULEAU
Hi On a mandrake 8.1 with a 40 Go DD, and with this partitions : hda1 : /boot hda5 : swap hda6 : /ext3 hda7 : /usrext3 hda8 : /varext3 hda9 : /homeext3 hda10 : /webext3 hda11 : /mysqlext3 After a freeze and a hard reboot, I lost hda8, 9 10 and 11 partitions. Suite à

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-05 Thread civileme
James wrote: On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:44:43 +0200 Laurent BOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On a mandrake 8.1 with a 40 Go DD, and with this partitions : hda1 : /boot hda5 : swap hda6 : /ext3 hda7 : /usrext3 hda8 : /varext3 hda9 : /homeext3 hda10 : /webext3 hda11 :

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-05 Thread Jim Tarvid
My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power down. if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk /dev/hda -l you should be able to rebuild the partition table. Of course having a copy of the MBR would make life easier dd if=/dev/hda

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-05 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:55, Jim Tarvid wrote: My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power down. if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk /dev/hda -l you should be able to rebuild the partition table. Of course having a copy of the MBR

Re: [expert] Lost of ext3 partitions

2002-06-05 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 06 June 2002 12:09 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:55, Jim Tarvid wrote: My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power down. if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk /dev/hda -l you should be able to