From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NiQ4y-00032i-8x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:27:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91552E064C; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FE2E064C for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiQ3x-0002lG-7q for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:26:21 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:26:18 +0100 id 00010DED.4B7E674A.00001224 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:26:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice_k8; KDE/4.4.0; i686; ; ) References: <061101cab127$58ca1500$6400a8c0@quan> In-Reply-To: <061101cab127$58ca1500$6400a8c0@quan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002191126.17104.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 02416131-6a64-4ebb-be46-cd5753773326 X-Archives-Hash: afe11a53757493615a03f70646e5d417 James Homuth writes: > I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after > reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently > have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. > But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it > sees them just fine. Also, and this is the strange part. It boots no > problem, so the OS is able to mount at least /dev/hda3, even though > from the command line I'm not seeing it. I'm probably missing > something completely dead obvious (it's after midnight here and all), > and Google's turning up nothing, so if someone could kindly slap me in > the face with it, that'd be appreciated. Thanks either way for > whatever help comes my way. See the "When is a disk not a disk" thread a few days ago. I guess this is the same problem: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair > with the "testdisk" tool (after you make a full backup of your > disk.) That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition table, minus one of the partitions which it insisted on deleting so I suppose something was wrong with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wonko