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James Homuth writes: |
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> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after |
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> reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently |
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> have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. |
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> But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it |
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> sees them just fine. Also, and this is the strange part. It boots no |
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> problem, so the OS is able to mount at least /dev/hda3, even though |
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> from the command line I'm not seeing it. I'm probably missing |
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> something completely dead obvious (it's after midnight here and all), |
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> and Google's turning up nothing, so if someone could kindly slap me in |
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> the face with it, that'd be appreciated. Thanks either way for |
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> whatever help comes my way. |
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See the "When is a disk not a disk" thread a few days ago. I guess this is |
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the same problem: |
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On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair |
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> with the "testdisk" tool (after you make a full backup of your |
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> disk.) |
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That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition |
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table, minus one of the partitions which it insisted on deleting so I |
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suppose something was wrong with it. |
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Wonko |