From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Lost HD Partition Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:56:25 -0400 Message-ID: <44995009.2080507@gelm.net> References: <44995A5E.2030004@skyinet.net> <4498D5F9.6040803@comarre.com> <44999CC5.9050807@skyinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44999CC5.9050807@skyinet.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Peter Cc: Ray Olszewski , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, Peter: It looks like your partition is corrupted. Although I would like to see if either of these two items would work. #mount -t auto /dev/hda6 /usr/local -or- comment out the line of fstab that specifies /dev/hda6 and #mount /dev/hda6 /usr/local However, if you are sure that the partition was formated as ext2 or ext3 before, this will not work as (I think) both filesystems depend on the superblock. :-| Chuck man mount -t vfstype The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system type. The file system types which are currently supported include: adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs, proc, qnx4, rmfs, reiserfs, romfs, smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs, umsdos, usbfs, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coherent will be removed at some point in the future -- use sysv instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore. Earlier, usbfs was known as usbdevfs. For most types all the mount program has to do is issue a simple mount(2) system call, and no detailed knowledge of the filesystem type is required. For a few types however (like nfs, smbfs, ncpfs) ad hoc code is necessary. The nfs ad hoc code is built in, but smbfs and ncpfs have a separate mount program. In order to make it possible to treat all types in a uniform way, mount will execute the program /sbin/mount.TYPE (if that exists) when called with type TYPE. Since various versions of the smbmount program have different calling conventions, /sbin/mount.smbfs may have to be a shell script that sets up the desired call. - 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