Hi,
My WIndows98 has done it again!
I'm using Mandrake 7.0.
My hd is configured like follows:
/dev/hda1 prim vfat /dos 1.5G (Windows98)
/dev/hda2 prim ext2 / 1.8G (Mandrake 7.0)
/dev/hda3 prim ext2 swap 120M
/dev/hda5 log ext2 /home 1.5G
/dev/hda6 log ext2 /usr 2.0G
/dev/hda7 log ext2 /var 1.2G
Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being
there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I
was told to do so every now and then.
Checked the options of defrag, told the program to work on "C:"
and nowhere else, started the app and went to bed.
This morning the screen told me that defrag had done its task
without errors. I closed Windows and booted into Linux -- I
tried to boot into Linux!
The boot process (via LILO) started normal but somewhere before
entering interactive mode it hanged. The first time I had to hit
the reset button since I use Linux!
Booting with a floppy revealed that there was no /boot on
/dev/hda2.
I installed Mandrake 6.1 on the spare partition /dev/hda3 and
tried to mount /dev/hda2. No chance. It said that there was a
bad superblock on /dev/hda3.
To make it short: I had to use 'mke2fs -S' to put a new
superblock on /dev/hda2 and then I had to do a looong e2fsck on
the partition. After that I ended up with a lot of folders in
lost&found containing at least a part of my former /-partition.
What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
"C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
Now I have restored a part of my former installation. How do I
restore the complete installation without messing up my /home,
/usr, and /var partitions?
wobo
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