/dev/hdb2

From: Jim <jsw@wadell.org>
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 19:33:24 AKDT

Jon,

First, try booting a rescue disk. Look at the partition table with fdisk
/dev/hdb. Try an e2fsck, assuming you have put an e2 file system on it.
Grovel, promise things, pray......

Jim

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>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:42:35 -0800
>From: jonr <jonr@destar.net>
>Subject: /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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