[Gllug] 'lost' partition -- can anyone help?

[Chris Hutchison]

Doh! figured out that I'd have to log in as root to run fdisk.  Reads 
as follows:

[root at localhost chris]# fdisk -l /dev/hd{a,b}

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         764     6136798+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             765        4863    32925217+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5             765         904     1124518+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6             905        4863    31800636   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1      238216   120060832+  83  Linux

Thanks, Tethys

Chris
>
> Chris Hutchison writes:
>
>> I've a problem: prior to upgrading from Mandrake 9.2 to Mandrake 10, I
>> installed a 2nd (120Gb) Maxtor hard drive and backed up all my 
>> existing
>> data (around 5Gb) to it so that I could do a clean install of Mandrake
>> 10 on my old (40 Gb) drive.  I *KNOW* (and double-checked) that the
>> data was successfully copied to the new hard drive.
>
> By what mechanism did you back it up? How did you check it was there?
> What partitions/filesystems do you think were on the second disk at
> the time of the upgrade?
>
> Can you post the output of:
>
> 	fdisk -l /dev/hd{a,b}
>
> Tet
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