Kristian Rink wrote: >Hi David; > >On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:45:28 +0900 >David Cournapeau <cournape@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>partition is not mounted for sure, and I tried several other tempory >>locations, without any success. The "funny" part is that a fsck.ext3 >>/dev/hda12 doesn't give me any error when I check the filesystem >>(which let me some hope about the possible recovery). >> >> > >Have you tried booting off a live cd (like Knoppix) and accessing the >partition from there? > > > I don't need it, because all my system partitions are fine. Only the two last partition, where there are some audio and work data, refused to be mounted. > >You might want to check out gpart to guess partition beginning/end >boundaries. In worst case, you might try an "mke2fs -S" followed by an >e2fsck in that drive (chances are you get some data off this one). But >overally I don't really think this is an issue caused by a broken >partition table. How does cfdisk see the drive in question? > > I think it is a partition table problem because I had the problems after having modified it through cfdisk. And the weird thing is that I could check the fs on the partition (a forced check didn't give any errors). In fact, now that my problem is solved, I think I forgot to reboot after having modified the partition table; worse, I built a filesystem on the modified partition before rebooting, maybe a 40 Gb fs on a 2 Gb partition ! I didn't know how to use gpart on the extended partition. What I did is just removing all the partitions from the partition table, and set the partitions where I knew the beginning/end. It worked, and I quickly copied all data on an external hard drive before reformating the partitions where the fs size and the partition size were different. Thanks for you help, David
