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

[Jan Depner]

You might try using an alternate superblock.  Check the man page on
mount (sb option).

Jan


On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 23:45, David Cournapeau 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 (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