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

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:53:53PM +0100, Chris Hutchison wrote:
> Thanks for replying, Tethys.  Responses below.
> 
> cheers
> 
> 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?
> 
> I backed up as I normally would on Win or Mac: dragged folders and 
> files to the new disk.  Then simply looked through the directory 
> structure to see that all had been copied across.
> 
> >What partitions/filesystems do you think were on the second disk at
> >the time of the upgrade?
> 
> One single ext3fs partition.
> 
> >Can you post the output of:
> >
> >	fdisk -l /dev/hd{a,b}
> 
> It tells me "fdisk: command not found"

It isn't in your $PATH, type:

	/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd{a,b}

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Alain Williams
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