From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H9OPv-000659-RT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:22:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0NG8hL4010197; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:08:43 GMT Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0NG2Ml1002199 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT Received: from sigfridov@aim.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id 5.c98.87d1477 (57867) for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:02:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from [200.28.78.224] (224-78-28-200.adsl.terra.cl [200.28.78.224]) by air-ia01.mail.aol.com (v114_r1.17) with ESMTP id MAILINIA11-e20b45b63172171; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:02:01 -0500 Message-ID: <45B63252.2090805@aim.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:05:38 -0300 From: "Sigfrido V. Ortiz C." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: es-cl, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 partition dissapeared :( References: <1169550701.11188.27.camel@paulie.kitchen> <200701231739.11648.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200701231739.11648.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 200.28.78.224 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Archives-Salt: 176da7d2-a7a9-46e3-8752-8fce7077ee8f X-Archives-Hash: b78c0a3a3b741bedb8e23dcbb5290fe8 Try fsck --help then select the options related to recovery and repair the system file at least twice, then reboot your system with "shutdown -b now" Based in my experience this occur after shutdown by power fault and not by command. The format must be fsck -p -f /dev/partition_name the flag -p will repair automatically your system and the flag -f force the revision even the file system appear like clean. Good luck!!! Sigfrido alan@linuxholdings.co.za wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:11, jcd wrote: > >>Hi. >>I'm in bad situation. I have two physical disks. First (DiskA) have >>200GB and second (DiskB) have 160GB capacity. On DiskB I have Linux >>partitions and some data partitions. On DiskA I had had 40GB NTFS >>(Windows) and 160GB NTFS partitions (data), but I already deleted >>Windows partition. So, I copied data from 160GB partition on DiskA to >>temporary space on DiskB, then I deleted remaining NTFS partition on >>DiskA and created one 200GB ext3 partition (I think so. In cfdsik I >>chose partition type '83 Linux') and then formatted it 'mke2fs >>-j /dev/sdb1'. Then I copied (moved :( ) all the data back to DiskA >>and everuthing was fine. It was yesterday. Today I started PC and at >>startup init said "Some local filesystems failed to mount". OK, in >>/etc/fstab I have "/dev/sdb1 /mnt/zaloha ext3 noatime 0 2" ... it >>seems to be good. I also tried to change ext2, but with both 'mount >>-a' says: >>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, >> missing codepage or other error >> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >> dmesg | tail or so. >>In /var/log/messages I found just "VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on >>dev sdb1" :((. When I try just 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/zaloha', >>at /mnt/zaloha I have mounted that old Windows partition that I >>already deleted. Do you know any solution how can I get back my ext3 >>partition to get back my data please? And what could be cause of this >>problem or when I can find what is the cause? Thanks very very much. > > > You've given lots of words, but very very little information, not even > the commands you used to perform these actions. Without this info it > becomes very hard to help you out. > > Meantime, please provide the output of the following commands: > > fdisk -l > fsck /dev/sdb1 > mount /dev/sdb1 /some/mount/point > > and we'll take it from there > > alan > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list