Hi David, Maybe worth checking the output of the following commands: $ df and $ fdisk -l /dev/hda and for good measure look for errors in /etc/fstab Use *cfdisk* if you need to adjust your partition table. You would have to be 7334 h@x0r to screw up a partition table using cfdisk. I can remember once confusing disks and deleting a partition on the wrong disk. Recreating it with exactly the same length as the original and the ext2 filesystem popped right back up. That is a good argument for printing out a hard copy of all partition tables. Joel On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:45:28PM +0900, David Cournapeau 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 (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 -- Joel Roth
