From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Lost HD Partition Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:40:30 -0300 Message-ID: <44995A5E.2030004@skyinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org For some reason I cannot access my important /usr/local hard drive partition. mount /mnt/hda6 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6, missing codepage or other error # /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda6 -p Disk /dev/hda6: 1998 MB, 1998710784 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3872 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System ---------- The drive has/had ext3 which information apparently got lost How could I access this drive again and remake it ext3 w/o losing the data? What other info is needed? Thanks & regards Peter - 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