Hi All, since weeks i cant access the laptop from my girl-friend. This laptop has a dual boot system (Windows and Debian Lenny). When i try to start the Linux System he stops at a specific point, where he cant find some devices under /dev/. Further i tried to boot a live-CD and mount the Linux System manualy without success. My partition-table is: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xb1c0b1c0 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 8032 64517008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 8415 9728 10554705 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 8033 8414 3068415 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda5 * 8415 8420 48163+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 8421 8547 1020096 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 8548 9728 9486351 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order Here are some further tests: <fsck /dev/sda7> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/sda7: clean, 232529/1186688 files, 2143683/2371587 blocks <mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/sda7> mount: Stale NFS file handle <fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda7> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda7 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193<device> I tried all backup-superblocks without success. <file -s /dev/sda7> /dev/sda7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data, UUID=96380d35-74fd-4c37-abc9-9dfc3d1bd43e <blkid | grep sda7> /dev/sda7: UUID="96380d35-74fd-4c37-abc9-9dfc3d1bd43e" TYPE="ext2" <fsck.ext2 /dev/sda7> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/sda7: clean, 232529/1186688 files, 2143683/2371587 blocks <mount -t ext2 -o ro /dev/sda7 /mnt/sda7> mount: Stale NFS file handle I only need the data under .thunderbird/, but i need to mount the ext partition first? or not? Is there another way to get my data? regards Markus _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users