[YLUG] recovering partition table

[john halewood]

2009/7/25 Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk>:
> Hello,
>
> After I made a mistake, I am trying to recover my disks.
> this is the results of fdisk:
> which seems OK, but I cannot mount the partition because the filesystem
> is not recognize (VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdd5)
>
> How can I repair it ?
 Boot into single user mode (add 'single' to the grub boot line), then
run fsck on /dev/sdd5 and see what it tells you. May be recoverable,
but if the boundaries have changed you might have a big problem.

Regards
John