fdisk "unable to read /dev/hdb"
I seem to have a disk problem. I want to mount a partition from hdb,
but can't. At present there is one such partition mounted:
g# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 2.9G 1.3G 1.5G 48% /
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 3.8G 2.2G 1.5G 60% /usr
/dev/hda3 1.9G 1.4G 454M 76% /usr/local
/dev/hda5 2.9G 1.4G 1.4G 52% /var
/dev/hda6 3.8G 2.3G 1.4G 62% /tehanu
/dev/hda10 9.2G 7.2G 1.6G 83% /home
/dev/hdb2 14G 14G 0 100% /mnt/backup2
but it isn't behaving properly:
anarres:/var/log# ls /mnt/backup2
anarres:/var/log#
neither fdisk nor fsck cna access the disk or its partitions:
# fdisk /dev/hdb
Unable to read /dev/hdb
# fsck /dev/hdb1
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hdb1
Could this be a zero-length partition?
sooo... that doesn't look so good to me. How can I figure out what's
going wrong here? And once I figure it out, is ehere any way to fix
it?
THanks much as always,
Matt
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