[linux-audio-user] [OT] disk recovery problem

[R Parker]

--- David Cournapeau <cournape at enst.fr> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>     It is a kind of OT, but I couldn't find any
> useful information, and 
> I already wasted half a day on this problem, so I
> thought someone here 
> would be able to help me.
>     It seems like my partition table is messed up,
> and I am not able to 
> mount all my partitions. For example, mount refuse
> to mount /dev/hda12 
> on any directory: when I do a mount -r /dev/hda12
> /mnt/tmp, mount tells 
> me that hda12 is already mounted, or that /mnt/tmp
> is busy. The 
> partition is not mounted for sure, and I tried
> several other tempory 
> locations, without any success. The "funny" part is
> that a fsck.ext3 
> /dev/hda12 doesn't give me any error when I check
> the filesystem (which 
> let me some hope about the possible recovery).
>    
>     Basically, I think the problem is only coming
> from a wrong partition 
> table, but I don't know how to recover the good
> beginning/end of the 
> partitions

Is your point that if you know the beginning and end
of hda12 you could write a new table and without
formating  mount it and find the data in place? I
think that's possible but how do you find those
locations, I haven't a clue. I believe this is
something I did once but it's been a long time and I
can't recall much. Sorry! I'm sure someone here will
have a much better clue than my pitiful last resort
and vague at best idea. Best of luck.

ron



 (the partitions used for the OS itself
> seem OK, my linux is 
> works flawlessly, "only" my last data partitions are
> not accessible 
> anymore). All my partitions are ext3.
> 
>     Thank, and my apologies for the OT,
> 
>     David
> 



		
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