--- David Cournapeau <cournape@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > It is a kind of OT, but I couldn't find any > useful information, and > I already wasted half a day on this problem, so I > thought someone here > would be able to help me. > It seems like my partition table is messed up, > and I am not able to > mount all my partitions. For example, mount refuse > to mount /dev/hda12 > on any directory: when I do a mount -r /dev/hda12 > /mnt/tmp, mount tells > me that hda12 is already mounted, or that /mnt/tmp > is busy. The > 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). > > Basically, I think the problem is only coming > from a wrong partition > table, but I don't know how to recover the good > beginning/end of the > partitions Is your point that if you know the beginning and end of hda12 you could write a new table and without formating mount it and find the data in place? I think that's possible but how do you find those locations, I haven't a clue. I believe this is something I did once but it's been a long time and I can't recall much. Sorry! I'm sure someone here will have a much better clue than my pitiful last resort and vague at best idea. Best of luck. ron (the partitions used for the OS itself > seem OK, my linux is > works flawlessly, "only" my last data partitions are > not accessible > anymore). All my partitions are ext3. > > Thank, and my apologies for the OT, > > David > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
