On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:53:49 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500, Linus Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a > > partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any > > file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly > > (at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back > > the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and > > recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I > > even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the > > second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same. > > > > I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However, > > I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Linus > > > Try this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/ > > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] > {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc > 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} > > "We all suck." -- Microsoft senior vice president Craig Mundie, September 2002 > This is over my head. I have tried cfdisk, and everything "looks" to be in order. I was able to recreate a 39 GB partition on the leftover space and get it mounted as ext3. I couldn't format it as xfs (like the rest of my partitions). I still can't do anything with the rest of the partition. When I run cfdisk, it will let me write the new partition table, but then it errors on rereading the table and tells me to reboot. It still isn't right after a reboot. I think I'm staring at a complete wipe of the drive and starting from scratch.
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