Quoting Will Twomey <termina@gmail.com>:
severino@ulvedalen.dk wrote:Quoting Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>:severino@ulvedalen.dk wrote:i guess this should be considered a "bad answer" from the system: # mount /dev/hda9/ /mnt/drive mount: /dev/hda9 is not a valid block device hinting towards a very damaged HD!What does dmesg say about finding any HD?hda: Maxtor 6E030L0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 But at the end of dmesg I found this: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
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EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
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That doesn't look like /dev/hda is mounted; just the ramdisk. Please give the output of *just* 'df'.You might also want to run fsck on your hda partitions, and see if that picks anything up before you try to mount them again.
Well, /mnt/hda9 (and all the other partitions) have been mounted now, and I am copying all the data to another computer. This seems very much like a happy ending. So now I will make a plan for macking backups *regularly* Thanks for all the advices. /severino