Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?
Maybe try an fsck on them first? Or could you have used a different
filesystem? reiserfs, maybe?
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 15:27, will trillich wrote:
> i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and
> plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions!
>
> root# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 4956 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
> for C/H/S=*/128/63 (instead of 4956/16/63).
> For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
> Units = cylinders of 4128768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 0+ 3 4- 16127+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 4 64 61 245952 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb3 65 618 554 2233728 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> /dev/hdb5 65+ 573 509- 2052287+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb6 574+ 618 45- 181439+ 82 Linux swap
>
> yes, i know, that's an awful place for the swap partition. i
> know, i know. i'm feeling much better now -- this was a few
> years back, when i set this puppy up. it sure would be nice to
> mount it and recover the things i'm interested in...
>
> i'll try mounting partitions hdb1, hdb2 and hdb5:
>
> root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/1/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> hmm! maybe if i leave off the trailing / no the mount-point--
>
> root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> nope. let's try partition 2 for fun:
>
> root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/2
>
> no complaints -- IT WORKED? hmm! how about partition 5:
>
> root: /mnt# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/5
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> can't mount #1 or #5? but #2 is okay?
>
> root: /mnt# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2 182M 47M 126M 27% /
> /dev/hda1 7.6M 5.3M 1.9M 73% /boot
> /dev/hda5 228M 203M 13M 94% /home
> /dev/hda6 1.8G 828M 953M 47% /usr
> /dev/hda7 1.5G 1.4G 133M 92% /var
> /dev/hdb2 232M 24M 196M 11% /mnt/2 <== this one's okay
>
> hdb[125] are all "Linux" filesystem type 83 (ext2, right)? but
> only hdb2 would mount? very much odd, here.
>
> ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to use
> it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody server...)
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