Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

[Alex Schuster]

James Homuth writes:

> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after
> reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently
> have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist.
> But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it
> sees them just fine. Also, and this is the strange part. It boots no
> problem, so the OS is able to mount at least /dev/hda3, even though
> from the command line I'm not seeing it. I'm probably missing
> something completely dead obvious (it's after midnight here and all),
> and Google's turning up nothing, so if someone could kindly slap me in
> the face with it, that'd be appreciated. Thanks either way for
> whatever help comes my way.

See the "When is a disk not a disk" thread a few days ago. I guess this is 
the same problem:

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On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair
>  with the "testdisk" tool (after you make a full backup of your
>  disk.)

That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition 
table, minus one of the partitions which it insisted on deleting so I 
suppose something was wrong with it.
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	Wonko