You might try using an alternate superblock. Check the man page on mount (sb option). Jan On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 23:45, 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
