/dev/hdb2 not a valid block device

Hello,

I am getting the message /dev/hdb2 not a valid block device when I try
to mount my second ext3 filesystem HD. This was a valid block device
before I had to do a hard reboot now when I try to mount the HD I get
the following error message.

I checked the /dev directory for the hdb2 device and it is there and has
the correct major/minor numbers, this is the output of ls -al /dev/hdb2:

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 66 Feb 23 2004 /dev/hdb2

I can mount hdb1 but it has only a 90MB partition where hdb2 has a 200GB
partitiion. The good news is that hdb2 only had 120GB of data on it.

The only thing I can think of is that I had two ln -s links over a smb
cifs connection from my fileserver to my desktop system when I had to do
the hard reboot. When it came back up the links were still there, only
now in a nice red color because there was no /dev/hdb2 mounted.

Am I screwed? Can I get the data back or is it forever lost? Why did the
hdb suddenly think it was no longer a valid device? what the hell happened?

I am really not that concerned with the data as I can recreate it over
time but I would like to know where I went wrong.

Thanks for any help,

Jon

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Received on Wed May 18 01:42:34 2005