Hi Reuben: > > I'm not sure what this means, but if I select the 'w' option, will this > > destroy my data on this drive? > > Yes, but from what you told us from the output of fdisk, your data is probably > not retrievable or already anyway, at least recovering it is not going to be > easy. The data is fine on my drive. fdisk doesn't show any partitions but I can retrieve and write data to the drive. fstab mounts it fine...I just sometimes can't umount the drive because I get device busy, even though nothing is writing to the hard drive. > > > Also if I try to do the print option in > > fdisk, it doesn't show the ext3 partition I created: > ... > > Could my problem be > > that I ran a program which screwed up my partition table? I ran parted > > which told me to run e2fsck due to a problem and then I ran fsck.ext3. Can > > any of these programs destroy my partitions? > > Probably.. > > > What should I do now? > > Assuming you can afford loosing the data there (for good), I'd just start > over. Here is a step by step guide to create ext3 partition. > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-filesystem-ext3-create.html I really don't want to start over as of right now the drive data is fine. I'll use the steps you provided as a last resort when the *#$% hits the fan. ;-) Thanks, SW ------------------------------------------------- WPPi.com | WPPi.Net ------------------------------------------------- http://www.wppi.com | http://www.wppi.net ------------------------------------------------- WPPi.com & WPPi.Net MailScanner Signature This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by WPPi MailScanner, and has been found to be clean. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
