Re: cannot mount /dev/hdc1

[Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>]

Ingo Rößler wrote:

>Hello,
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>I hope You can help me!
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>I get at the reboot of  my Suse7.1-Linux-server this message:
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>mount -t reiserfs  /dev/hdc1 /home : mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
>superblock on /dev/hdc1, or too many mounted file systems
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>This is my home-directory - my live!
>
>The harddisk is correct connected. It is a Western Digial 80 GB Harddisk
>with only this Partition hdc1.
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>elsa:~ # cat /etc/fstab
>/dev/hda1       /windows        vfat            defaults                0 0
>/dev/hda2       swap            swap            pri=42                  0 0
>/dev/hda3       /               reiserfs        defaults                1 1
>/dev/hdc1       /home           reiserfs        defaults                1 2
>/dev/hda5       /home/backup          reiserfs        defaults
>1 2
>/dev/cdrom      /home/mount/cdrom       auto            ro,noauto,user,exec
>0 0
>/dev/dvd        /home/mount/dvd auto            ro,noauto,user,exec     0 0
>/dev/fd0        /home/mount/floppy      auto            noauto,user,sync 0 0
>proc            /proc           proc            defaults                0 0
>devpts          /dev/pts        devpts          defaults                0 0
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>elsa:~ # reiserfsck --check /dev/hdc1
><-------------reiserfsck, 2001------------->
>reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j
>reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs format found on /dev/hdc1
>reiserfsck: --rebuild-sb may restore reiserfs super block
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>Now I boot with a newer OS: Knoppix, a CDROM-Linux-Distri:
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>mount -t reiserfs  /dev/hdc1 /mnt
>read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 16:01, block 128,
>size 512)
>read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 16:01, block 16,
>size 512)
>mount : Falscher Dateisystemtyp, ungültige Optionen, der "Superblock" von
>/dev/hdc1 ist beschädigt oder es sind zu viele Dateisysteme eingehängt.
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># reiserfsck --check /dev/hdc1
><-------------reiserfsck, 2002------------->
>reiserfsprogs 3.6.3
>reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs format found on /dev/hdc1
>reiserfsck:  could not open filesystem on "/dev/hdc1"
>Aborted
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>What can I do?
>Can you help me?
>
>Ciao Ingo
>
>PS:
>Excuse my bad english.
>Excuse my using of OE - my Netscape is on /home/
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Well, you might try to rebuild super block. Backup your data first if it 
possible and run:
reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hdc1

What does it say?

Try also this command:
dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/tmp/super bs=4096 count=1 skip=16

and send us /tmp/super file please.