From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: edgaralwers@t-online.de (Edgar Alwers) Subject: Re: Urgent help ! Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:54:29 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <02041009542900.01099@edgar> References: <20020408232526.122bd9b1.bbotero@gmx.de> <16ukfV-26ZTpgC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16ukfV-26ZTpgC@fwd01.sul.t-online.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Christoph Hammann , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thank you, Christoph. I could boot the box in maintenance modus, edit /etc/fstab and exclude /dev/hdb2 from booting. After that, I could at least boot up normally my first hd. Now one question and one general remark. The question: how could I try to rescue the /dev/hdb2 partition ? I mean, do I have to formate the disk or what could be a better procedure ? The general remark: after this experience, I would strongly recomend _not_ to_change a running ext2 partition in an ext3 one, as it seems that recovery processes in the event of a crash and consequential forced check may have catastrophal consequences. I had downloaded the newest e2fsprogs version 1.27 and even this program could not repair the partition. Not imaginable what would have happened, if I would have also changed the partition containing root ! Edgar You wrote: > > /dev/hdb2 seems to be definitely hosed, I'm not seeing any reasonable > method of getting at the data on this partition. But as you write this > partition seems to contain a backup only. Can you boot from CD-ROM or > diskette and when it halts in the bootup process while trying to fsck > /dev/hdb2 open another console (Ctrl-Alt-F2 to F{number of ttys+1})? If so, > I would try to umount this partition and go on with the boot process or > edit /etc/fstab so that it doesn't even touch it. > If, on the other hand, /dev/hdb2 contains the root filesystem, you really > are FUBAR. Wonder if one of the experts on this list can still help you out > of this. > So, what is the /etc/fstab of this system? > > Christoph -- ----------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers Mailto:edgaralwers@gmx.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs