Hi Fellas,
I am having a serious trouble with my linux
partitions.
My previous partition structure was,
/dev/hda1 * Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 Extended Linux
/dev/hda5 ext2 /
/dev/hda7 ext2 /SuSe
(I created this to install SuSe from chip CD but
never got enough time for it, the partition was empty)
/dev/hda6 ext2 /home
( I have major amount of critical data here and it is
not accessible :-( )
/dev/hda8 swap
The problems are like this ---
The kernel partition check reports:
hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
and not,
hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
as it used to. This has happened out of the blues.
Linux fdisk reports:
starts ends
/dev/hda1 1 529 Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 530 784 Extended
/dev/hda5 530 768 /
/dev/hda6 769 784 /swap ??? -- this should contain
3
seperate partitions
Since kernel recognises different partitions fsck
utility gives various errors like 'bad super_block'
for
/home partition and 'Zero length partition ?' for
/SuSe, while init process is going on.
Using 'e2fsck -b 8193 <device>' fails for both /SuSe
and /home, /dev/hda6 is not accessible.
I, as root is dropped to a shell as '/' can still be
mounted rw. I badly need to salvage my data in /home
as
it contains research work of over 2 years and I can't
afford to loose it. I have a old backup of this work
but recent modifications are more important.
I badly need expert help, please reply at your
earliest.
Many thanks,
Rajesh
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