Jason wrote:
Ok, iv'e re-entered the apporpriate cylinder boundary values, and written the partition to disk (and rebooted). Here's what it looks like now:
Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 127 1020096 6 FAT16 /dev/hdc2 624 784 1293232+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 128 637 4096575 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 128 129 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc6 130 193 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc7 194 321 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc8 322 334 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdc9 335 589 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hdc10 590 606 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc11 607 623 136521 82 Linux swap
Keep in mind devs 5-11 were re-created by me. /dev/hdc2 somehow partially survived. /dev/hdc4 had correct cylinder boundary vals so I left that alone.
BUT, some block totals are off by 1 (/dev/hdc8 should be 104390, /dev/hdc9 should be 2048255, hdc10 and hdc11 should be 136520.
-=-=-=-=-=- If the other numbers are correct (start && end) maybe your disk is damaged (maybe I don't know, but in an old damaged HD that I have I get something like your offsets)
When I try mounting them (as an ext2) i'm receiving: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc6, or too many mounted file systems
-=-=-=-=- Here's a trick to find out about your partitions without using MBR (don't know if it works 100% but you can try) Do 'dd if=/dev/hdc? of=/tmp/whatever bs=1k count=10' This will copy the first 10kb of your partition on /tmp/whatever Then do 'file /tmp/whatever' and normally (that means at my disk) will show you the type of your partition ;-)
The only affected device that mounts is /dev/hdc10 - its shows me the lost+found directory.
-=-=-=-=- That means that you have a brand new formatted partition and you have destroyed all your data in that partition ;-( (but that was a swap right?)
Any tips greatly appreciated.
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Chris Reeves wrote:
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