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

[Chris Hutchison]

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"

> Tet
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