Re: Urgent help !

[edgaralwers@t-online.de (Edgar Alwers)]

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

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