[opensuse] Trying to recover a hard drive
Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words. i had a fedora 2 box crap out so i took the HD out and put it in a USB enclosure to plug into another fedora 2 box. i mounted the drive but the only options i see when i LS it is: config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl grub initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernal.h lost+found System.map-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 19:54 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote:
Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.
Well, I don't even know what is the problem... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFGNcVstTMYHG2NR9URAjKaAKCQ1GlhKlSj7W7XCuM90HERCjTBhACYqpgv eDJpEbrko/RNvkv3j28aOA== =Il8/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 30 April 2007 12:31, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 19:54 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote:
Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.
Well, I don't even know what is the problem...
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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That seems like a bootpartition (ext2 format) If you do a fdisk -l on the drive what do you see? There ought to be more partitions there. (Unless there were other drives in the machine, and the rest of the system is on another drive. -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob: : +46 (0)763 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:54, Pueblo Native wrote:
Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.
i had a fedora 2 box crap out so i took the HD out and put it in a USB enclosure to plug into another fedora 2 box.
i mounted the drive but the only options i see when i LS it is: config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl grub initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernal.h lost+found System.map-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
I think he has in fact mounted only one partition on the drive, probably whichever one he mounted as /boot. If the USB mounted damaged disk were to be /dev/sd1, for example, he should have a go at mount and listing /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd1c, etc., until he finds the one with his data or other vital matter on it. If it were me, I'd then copy the data safely off, check to make good and sure that I'd *really* got all the vital data off, and then start again with a fresh install on that 'crapped out' disk. That's if I had reason to believe the crapping out to be software rather than hardware related. If the disk is knackered then he would be throwing good time after bad by doing anything other than discarding it. HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:54, Pueblo Native wrote:
Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.
i had a fedora 2 box crap out so i took the HD out and put it in a USB enclosure to plug into another fedora 2 box.
i mounted the drive but the only options i see when i LS it is: config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl grub initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernal.h lost+found System.map-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
I think he has in fact mounted only one partition on the drive, probably whichever one he mounted as /boot. If the USB mounted damaged disk were to be /dev/sd1, for example, he should have a go at mount and listing /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd1c, etc., until he finds the one with his data or other vital matter on it. If it were me, I'd then copy the data safely off, check to make good and sure that I'd *really* got all the vital data off, and then start again with a fresh install on that 'crapped out' disk. That's if I had reason to believe the crapping out to be software rather than hardware related. If the disk is knackered then he would be throwing good time after bad by doing anything other than discarding it. HTH Fergus
Thanks for the advice. Usually the USB drives I see are FAT, so I didn't even think of it as having more than one partition. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 30 April 2007 12:53, Pueblo Native wrote:
Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:54, Pueblo Native wrote:
Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.
i had a fedora 2 box crap out so i took the HD out and put it in a USB enclosure to plug into another fedora 2 box.
i mounted the drive but the only options i see when i LS it is: config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl grub initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernal.h lost+found System.map-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
I think he has in fact mounted only one partition on the drive, probably whichever one he mounted as /boot. If the USB mounted damaged disk were to be /dev/sd1, for example, he should have a go at mount and listing /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd1c, etc.,
Sorry, of course I meant to type "/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2" etc., not sd1a ... but the principle is the same, hope it works out, Best Fergus
until he finds the one with his data or other vital matter on it. If it were me, I'd then copy the data safely off, check to make good and sure that I'd *really* got all the vital data off, and then start again with a fresh install on that 'crapped out' disk. That's if I had reason to believe the crapping out to be software rather than hardware related. If the disk is knackered then he would be throwing good time after bad by doing anything other than discarding it. HTH Fergus
Thanks for the advice. Usually the USB drives I see are FAT, so I didn't even think of it as having more than one partition.
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (4)
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Carlos E. R.
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Fergus Wilde
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Pueblo Native
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Rikard Johnels