Re: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Mike Burger
What has worked for me, in teh past, was recreating the partition...if you just recreate the partition in fdisk, often you'll find that the contents of that partition are still there, as long as you don't mkfs on that partition. On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Hi, I am using RH

Re: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Kiran Kumar M
Thanks for your mail. Even the file system is not able to locate. (eg.fdisk /dev/sda1 giving the messaaage "Unable to open"), so how can I do fdisk, if the filesystem is not found. Kiran On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: What has worked for me, in teh past, was recreating the

RE: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Reiner Buehl
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I rescue the disk Thanks for your mail. Even the file system is not able to locate. (eg.fdisk /dev/sda1 giving the messaaage "Unable to open"), so how can I do fdisk, if the filesystem is not found. Kiran On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mike Bu

Re: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Mark Bradbury
If you don't have any data that you really nead I would trash it and start again :) On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 07:39:19PM +0530, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Hi, I am using RH 7.0, with kernel 2.2.16. I installed this on two IBM SCSI, each having 18 GB. Suddenly the file system was corrupted. I

Re: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Mike Burger
Boot diskette? Put the hard drive into another system that is running? I did the latter. On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Thanks for your mail. Even the file system is not able to locate. (eg.fdisk /dev/sda1 giving the messaaage "Unable to open"), so how can I do fdisk, if the

RE: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Kiran Kumar M
Even with /dev/sda also the same. Kiran On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Jason Holland wrote: try fdisk /dev/sda fdisk is not run on an individual filesystem, but the entire disk. jason Thanks for your mail. Even the file system is not able to locate. (eg.fdisk /dev/sda1 giving the

RE: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Even with /dev/sda also the same. I'd suggest having your SCSI controller check the hard drive. Sounds like it can't read the disk. :-( John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Kiran Kumar M
Its already done, No use it is able to verify the complete disk without any errors... Kiran On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Even with /dev/sda also the same. I'd suggest having your SCSI controller check the hard drive. Sounds like it

RE: How can I rescue the disk

2001-01-04 Thread Kiran Kumar M
If I am able to mount all the partitions then I can retrive the data. If it is not able locate the some of the filesystem in the harddisk (including the root and one more partition) Thanks, Kiran On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: Actually, he said the other partitions on the disk are