On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:33:48PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:09, Mark Phalan wrote: > > > Yesterday I nuked an old fat32 partition on my hard drive using fdisk. I > > just destroyed the partition and then created a new linux partition. Then I > > created an ext3 filesystem with the following command > > > > mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/hdc1 > > Ouch. I'd guess that you had other partitions on this disk in use at > the time, so the kernel was unable to reread the partition table when > you created the new partition. You'd get a big warning from the kernel > if that happened, and from that point on, the kernel's idea of the > partition table and the version on disk could have been out of sync. > That would leave the new partition unreadable after the reboot. Uh-Oh! That probably was the problem then.. I did do it while other partitions were mounted on the same disk! > There's a tool called "gpart" which can guess partition locations and > which may be able to find the right start of the filesystem for you. > I'll check out gpart and see if I can get things back. Thanks for the speedy response, Mark > Cheers, > Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
