-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help. i am running suse 9.0 (kde3.2) on an ext3 partion. I was dual booting on the 60gig hard drive with 25gig for suse 1gig for swap and winxp on the rest. I decided that I no longer needed the windows stuff so I had a friend who had ghost 8.0. I figured I could have him ghost the partition ~ for me, I could reformat the HD and remove windows. I was with him during the imaging, and it seemed to go fine. I reformted the drive and had him restore the image. The old partition was 25gig in which 13gig was used. After the repartition I had about 50gigs (He left the image on a fat32 fat partition) Then the s**t hit the fan!!! When we restored the image it seemed fine until I tried to reboot, I knew GRUB would be gone so I booted with my original boot disk into install and then repair system, expert->repair boot loader. It said I didn't have a root drive.. Hmm.. When I ran the scan it said my ext2 was corrupt. So I booted a rescue linux and ran e2fsck -fy. after about 15 minutes and more errors then I could count it finally exited. and said there was a .6% noncontigous. Unfortunatly my friend is an expert on windows and not linux, so he doesn't know what to do. I searched the archives and google and couldn't find anything (I could have missed it of course) The ghost documentation and knowledge base aren't any help.. I will trying again tomorrow. Please help me rescue my suse... any ideas, pointers or anything would be appreciated... - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAgeDilC+PSm9+eB0RAllmAKClSMyL4+mBWIcWObwUS4Mc5Ogj6gCbB014 fQ0/XPUSa8uEDuQEhP3AZ1Q= =KIlv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Saturday 17 April 2004 21:58, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
Hey all
I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help.
<-snip-> Hi Adolph & Sharon, Please point me to the Ghost 8.0 documentation and knowledge base you claim aren't any help. In the interim, you've said that SuSE 9.0 w/ kde 3.2 was installed on an ext3 partition when the 'image' was taken, but that the 'image' has been 'restored' to an ext2 partition which subsequently has been determined to be corrupted. It may not be possible to overlay an ext3 formatted 'image' onto an ext2 partition (hence the need for you to point me to the docs & kb.) You've got my curiosity up, so I don't mind doing some research for you. regards, - Carl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA http://www.cehartung.com "Jello is never very interesting until it is set and sure of itself!"
On Saturday 17 April 2004 10:30 pm, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
On Saturday 17 April 2004 21:58, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
Hey all
I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help.
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Hi Adolph & Sharon,
Please point me to the Ghost 8.0 documentation and knowledge base you claim aren't any help.
In the interim, you've said that SuSE 9.0 w/ kde 3.2 was installed on an ext3 partition when the 'image' was taken, but that the 'image' has been 'restored' to an ext2 partition which subsequently has been determined to be corrupted. It may not be possible to overlay an ext3 formatted 'image' onto an ext2 partition (hence the need for you to point me to the docs & kb.) You've got my curiosity up, so I don't mind doing some research for you.
ext3 is just an ext2 partition with the addition of journaling.... You should be able to mount it as an ext2 partition and then later convert it back to ext3. It's pretty trivial to do so.
regards,
- Carl
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"Jello is never very interesting until it is set and sure of itself!"
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On Saturday 17 April 2004 09:58 pm, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
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Hey all
I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help.
i am running suse 9.0 (kde3.2) on an ext3 partion. I was dual booting on the 60gig hard drive with 25gig for suse 1gig for swap and winxp on the rest. I decided that I no longer needed the windows stuff so I had a friend who had ghost 8.0. I figured I could have him ghost the partition ~ for me, I could reformat the HD and remove windows. I was with him during the imaging, and it seemed to go fine. I reformted the drive and had him restore the image. The old partition was 25gig in which 13gig was used. After the repartition I had about 50gigs (He left the image on a fat32 fat partition) Then the s**t hit the fan!!! When we restored the image it seemed fine until I tried to reboot, I knew GRUB would be gone so I booted with my original boot disk into install and then repair system, expert->repair boot loader. It said I didn't have a root drive.. Hmm.. When I ran the scan it said my ext2 was corrupt. So I booted a rescue linux and ran e2fsck -fy. after about 15 minutes and more errors then I could count it finally exited. and said there was a .6% noncontigous. Unfortunatly my friend is an expert on windows and not linux, so he doesn't know what to do. I searched the archives and google and couldn't find anything (I could have missed it of course) The ghost documentation and knowledge base aren't any help.. I will trying again tomorrow.
Please help me rescue my suse... any ideas, pointers or anything would be appreciated...
First question: You removed a partition (or two or three).... did you rework your /etc/fstab to account for the changes in partition numbers? The reason you may not have had / was because it was looking for / on the old partition number and now you've moved it. Boot a rescue disk and go in and look around... and change fstab to also mount / as ext2. You probably have lost your journal for ext3. (all of this assuming that what you did after the boot didn't destroy everything. I would restore the partition first.)
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On Sunday 18 April 2004 03:58, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
So I booted a rescue linux and ran e2fsck -fy. after about 15 minutes and more errors then I could count it finally exited. and said there was a .6% noncontigous.
That's not an error message. Can you mount it at all after the fsck?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 | | Hey all | | I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help. | | i am running suse 9.0 (kde3.2) on an ext3 partion. I was dual booting on | the 60gig hard drive with 25gig for suse 1gig for swap and winxp on the | rest. I decided that I no longer needed the windows stuff so I had a | friend who had ghost 8.0. I figured I could have him ghost the partition | ~ for me, I could reformat the HD and remove windows. I was with him | during the imaging, and it seemed to go fine. I reformted the drive and | had him restore the image. The old partition was 25gig in which 13gig | was used. After the repartition I had about 50gigs (He left the image on | a fat32 fat partition) Then the s**t hit the fan!!! When we restored the | image it seemed fine until I tried to reboot, I knew GRUB would be gone | so I booted with my original boot disk into install and then repair | system, expert->repair boot loader. It said I didn't have a root drive.. | Hmm.. When I ran the scan it said my ext2 was corrupt. So I booted a | rescue linux and ran e2fsck -fy. after about 15 minutes and more errors | then I could count it finally exited. and said there was a .6% | noncontigous. Unfortunatly my friend is an expert on windows and not | linux, so he doesn't know what to do. I searched the archives and google | and couldn't find anything (I could have missed it of course) The ghost | documentation and knowledge base aren't any help.. I will trying again | tomorrow. | | Please help me rescue my suse... any ideas, pointers or anything would | be appreciated... | Well thanks for the help.. I was at least able to save my code and some of the files. Most of them were corrupted. When I ran e2fsck on the affected partition it put 90% of the back up in the lost&found. So I rescued what I could from the home directory and formatted the rest. I am in the process of doing a complete reinstall.. Oh well it was a nice try. I guess with friends like I do who ..... ya know the rest ;^( Maybe I'll try the 2.6 kernel... Thanks agian.. - -- Adolph & Sharon Weidanz S/V Time To Paws 43' 1978 Endeavour Ketch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAgwaKlC+PSm9+eB0RAt45AJ9Lg1cxc45jFONsSs/T7Dc3YIB08ACgpdbS KPK5xdmadh10GCYb3HSIIcg= =54pP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Adolph & Sharon Weidanz
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Anders Johansson
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Bruce Marshall
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Carl E. Hartung