Re: please help, lost my partition
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I lost my partition. One of my most important ones...
> It is a 100gb partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc...
> I had a crash in kde, and I had to reset the computer. After the boot, the
> boot process said that it can not mount /dev/hda2. Unfortunatelly, I can not
> write you exactly the output, because I can't copy/paste, so I have just my
> brain to remember the lines.
> It says Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,2).
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
> or too many mounted file systems.
>
> When I type cfdisk /dev/hda it can not detect that /dev/hda2 is an ext3 fs,
> so under the FS Type column it writes Linux, instead of Linux ext3. I had a
> problem like this before with another filesystem. The problem was EXACTLY
> the same. Crash -> reboot -> can not mount.... But then probably I made a
> huge mistake: typed fsck /dev/hda1. It asked me a lot (realy lot), so I
> ctrl+c'd, and typed fsck -y /dev/hda1. It worked a lot (20-30mins), and
> wrote a lot of things, like bad imagic number (or like that), and wrong
> inode etc... but the question was always the same: Clear?<y>. I couldn't
> choose. Yes, clear... After fsck finished, I had a still unusable partition,
> could not mount it, and couldn't fix it, because after that, every time I typed
> fsck /dev/hda2, it said can not find superblock, specify another superblock
> with -B option. I tried a lot of number but neither of them worked. So I
> lost that partition.
> I _don't_ want to lose this partition. I need this partition. Half of my
> life is in this partition. Please someone help, what should I do to preserve
> the data on my partition.
>
> Very big thanks!
>
> Daniel
>
>
Maybe you have a block size other than 1024? That will influence what the
superblock numbers are. Try 'mke2fs -n /dev/hda2' and be *sure* to include
the '-n' so that you don't get rid of the filesystem!! That switch gives
the info on the filesystem including the list of superblocks.
Anita
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