I just partitioned my second slave IDE HD from NTFS to ext3 and moved all my files... when I restarted Linux couldn't find the Hard Drive, it's not under /dev/ at all. I checked in the bios and its still there, some I think it has to do with the way I partitioned it... I just used mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/...
Please Help!
paste the results of the following (as root)
that's l as in larry
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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 12761 102398310 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 12762 14946 17551012+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/dm-0: 15.8 GB, 15837691904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1925 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sdd: 2007 MB, 2007498752 bytes
29 heads, 28 sectors/track, 4828 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 812 * 512 = 415744 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 4829 1960320+ 6 FAT16
Its the 160 GB, I partitioned it from ntfs to ext3... :S hmm, can't mount it right now, and I want to keep my files
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/hdb /mnt/documents -t ntfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | tail
NTFS-fs error (device hdb): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device hdb): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device hdb): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb.
FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb.
NTFS-fs warning (device hdb): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device hdb): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device hdb): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device hdb): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NVM it re-named my hard drive, that's why it couldn't find it, then I was using the wrong partition to re-mount it, thx for the help anyway.