On Wednesday 15 February 2006 02:16, A. Mani wrote: > Use parted preferably from a rescue cd. You will know what the situation > is. In case the whole table of /hdb is lost try to recover it. It appears > the partitions are not hidden.
Thank you A Mani for your kind suggestion, but, it did not work, none of fdisk/ sfdisk/ cfdisk/ parted could read the table even. Every one of them was showing no partitions, whatever way i tried with them. Only sfdisk was reporting four blank partitions, though the correct number is five, four logical within the extended hdb2, one ext3, one swap, and two XFS. Finally, as Arijit Majumdar from our lug suggested, i consulted the good old tldp linux partion howto and got the reference of 'gpart' and 'testdisk' as two SW meant for this. There was a hard way too, by dumping and grep-ing the number of blocks. That i did not try. But i tried the 'gpart' and 'testdisk'. Both are available in source and static binaries. I downloaded the static binaries, and ran them. 'gpart' was reading some of them correctly, but not all. But this 'testdisk' thing was a genuine darling. A very intuitive curses menu, and everything so cool and simple. I ran it, re-wrote the table. And did a reboot. Everything got OK. All the problems, because fstab entries were not getting available before without the devices, were all gone. Hats off to these 'testdisk' people. Going to cook some good fish and email them. dipankar das -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
