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

Chris Hutchison chris.hutchison at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed May 18 17:23:37 UTC 2005


On 18 May 2005, at 17:16, John Hearns wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:35 +0100, Tethys wrote:
>
>>
>> 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}
>
> This might be of some help also, but wait till you do what Tet has
> suggested.
>
> http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

Thanks, I'll take a look at that now.

> If I'm not wrong this is included with Knoppix.
> It might be worth getting a handy Knoppix disk.
>
> Stupid question, and I don't mean to insult you,
> can you check in /proc/ide/hdxxx/model what the model name of each 
> drive
> is?

hda is: WDC WD400BB-75DEA0
hdb is: Maxtor 6Y120L0

> Is there any way you could have mixed them up (oops).

I don't think so ... but I was concurrently busy with a half-dozen 
other things, so anything is possible.  Doh!

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