Subject: Re: lost harddrive
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 13:35:31 AKDT
that was it ... i forgot that i had redhate on this drive oh so long ago so
it was chopped up in all the partitions ... hdb5 is the partition... thanx
for all the help . i never ran cat /proc/partitions before .. that is
something good to know .. now i can move some files and install fBSD .. ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gibson" <eclectric@ftml.net>
To: "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: lost harddrive
>
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, FeLoNiouS MoNK wrote:
> > hmm i had tried that .. and it gave me this error
> >
> > # mount -t auto /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb
> > EST2-fs: ide0(3,65): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
> > features.
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/hdb1, or too
many
> > mounted file systems
> >
> > ok .. not too many filesystems .. i dont think its a bad option ... and
bad
> > superblock .. bah .. i hope not.. any other ideas...?
>
> take a look at the output of:
>
> # cat /proc/partitions
>
> that will give you a list of partitions that the kernel knows about..
> might help. Also, if you're sure you have the right partition specified,
> you can run e2fsck (fsck.ext2) on it to verify that it isn't a superblock
> issue..
>
> --James
>
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