On Wednesday 08 September 2004 01:07, SW wrote: > 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-filesy >stem-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. ;-) > OK, it seems you don't have partitions but a file system using the entire drive. Basically there is nothing wrong with that. The real broblem seems to be the limited view point of the backup script; or I guess I should say, its author. Malcolm -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
