Quoting praxis
Forrest replied:
Okay, John, good. now according to the fstab you posted earlier :
I do see this also, a 'data1', but it's also empty, no /user or anything. This is also what's in my fstab:
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hda3 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda4 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
It looks like your main "/" partition is /dev/hda2, and your system is using /dev/hda1 as swap. There are two other Linux formatted partitions on this disk: /dev/hda3, and /dev/hda4. Also interesting from the fdisk info you posted is that /dev/hda3, the third partition on your main ATA/IDE hard drive, is marked "bootable" -- that might have been the "boot" partition you were speaking of earlier. I would hazard a guess -- its only a guess --that your "home" is actually on /dev/hda4, based on the size...but it could be either one. Now the other disk, /dev/hdb, has only one partition, which you called 'movies'? You can't see it? Then it is unmounted. (Verify this by typing yourhostname:/# df -h
[[..that will show you the disk partitions that are mounted right now, in "-h" = "human-readable" format {with G notation for Gigabytes, etc.}. IF you type just "df" it will show the results in block size only...]]
Okay, after typing that, you should verify that you do not see any of the directories in question, /dev/hda3, /dev/hda4/ or /dev/hdb1 in the "df -h" output.
You got it perfectly correct. All it showed was /dev/hda2 and tmpfs.
Next step: Experimental mounting of these directories under /mnt. Now, John, you are going to have to test something here. Based only on the information that you've supplied, I don't know what file system these partitions were formatted with. You are going to have to test this - -- the likely candidates are "reiserfs" and "ext3"...try both: [[..I'm doing this example below for /dev/hda4, because its' the biggest partition of the three. Similar procedure for the others..]]
yourhostname:/# mkdir /mnt/hda3; mkdir /mnt/hda4; mkdir /mnt/hdb1 yourhostname:/# mount -t reiserfs -o ro /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4
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One of these mount commands will successfully mount the directory, as long as the data is undamaged. Try them now and email back your results. Once your system accepts the mount command without error, check to see the new filesystem with "df -h" yourhostname:/# df -h
I'll wait for your response.
Yes, my fs is reiser. I now see /dev/hda4 and /dev/hda2 mounted. In konqueror, clicking 'mnt' shows my 'home/user' now, so you were correct that hda4 is /home, which means hda3 should be /...I think, since /boot should only be about 1 Gb or smaller. So far so good, right? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com