22 Dec
2002
22 Dec
'02
18:39
Fouzi Husaini <fouzih@yahoo.com> writes:
So to make a long story short I now have a drive that I know has data on it, but according to fdisk has no partitions. So I guess this means that my superblock is hosed.
If fdisk reports there are no partitions there then the partition table is corrupted. The table is on the first disk sector (If you don't use LVM - I'm not familiar with LVM.) I doubt any ext2fs tools can work when the OS doesn't know where the partition starts. You need to repair the partition table first. In the past, Unix system administrators often kept partition table data on a piece of paper. I don't think ordinary users do it. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se