[YLUG] recovering partition table

[Jess Wardman]

<anecdote>I've never had problems with it. </anecdote>

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre<pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, john halewood wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> My understanding is: do not use fsck, it mess up every things
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