Re: mount help on bad drive.

2005-08-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Aug 3 at 11:46pm, pete snider wrote: I've tried various sb numbers which were 8192 x n +1, without success. Any other ideas of how to mount the partition or copied the readable data? On Aug 4 at 7:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I tried without any luck. If I remember correctly, ext2 d

Re: mount help on bad drive.

2005-08-04 Thread psnider
Yes, I tried without any luck. If I remember correctly, ext2 did recognize the partition. -pete Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2005, at 23:46, pete snider wrote: > > > I've tried 'mount -r -t ext3 -o debug,noload,errors=continue /dev/sda2 > > /mnt' > > ... >

Re: mount help on bad drive.

2005-08-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 3, 2005, at 23:46, pete snider wrote: I've tried 'mount -r -t ext3 -o debug,noload,errors=continue /dev/sda2 /mnt' ... and dmesg states: ext3: No journal on filesystem on sda2 Did you try -t ext2? If the journal is lost, mounting it ext2 shouldn't be any worse. -Bill - Bill McG

mount help on bad drive.

2005-08-03 Thread pete snider
One of the disks on my system has developed a bad spot after the start of the second partition and of course will not mount. The filesystem is an ext3 with journal enabled. I've tried 'mount -r -t ext3 -o debug,noload,errors=continue /dev/sda2 /mnt' and with sb=8193 but the partition refuses