mount slave drive

[Chris Aitken]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Chris Aitken wrote:
>
>> Should I worry that /dev/hdb1 (the partition I'm trying to mount) has a 
> Start
>> and End of 1, and that System is Empty?:
>
> Yeah, I would.  The output of fdisk is the canonical info appearing in 
> the
> partition table.  The partition table records only a zero length 
> partition on /dev/hdb.  You still have options...
>
>> [root at p733 chris]# /sbin/fdisk -l
>
> [hda snipped]
>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1216 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdb1   *           1           1           0    0  Empty
>> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>> [root at p733 chris]#
>
> If you did indeed see a working hdb1 at some point in the past then it 
> looks to me like the parittion table has been altered or has become 
> corrupt since you last accessed the drive.
>
> Tools exist to attempt to find lost partitions.  Warning: These tools can
> do irreparable damage to your data.  They can also recover your data.
> Quite a few tools are available.  Some OSS Linux based tools include 
> gpart
> & testdisk.  Both of these utils are on Knoppix I believe.
>
> When trying to recover really important data it makes sense to dd an
> image of the disk to a safe place before beginning the recovery 
> attempt as this gives you a safety net.
I guess the fedora 7 installation ignored my request to leave that drive 
alone...

Chris
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>

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