Re: file recovery ideas? - apparent HD failure

From: Henrik Carlqvist (Henrik.Carlqvist_at_deadspam.com)
Date: 01/06/04

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    "agathon" <muqawwatREMOVETHIS@comcast.net> wrote:
    > *NOTE: I can see files & nav. directories if I boot cdrom.*
    >
    > 1. Running RH 8.0 on disk hdb. Have 2 HD: hda, hdb
    >
    > 2. Disk hdb apparently failed.

    > Recover about 1GB of important non-system files from hdb

    The easiest way is probably to boot your rescue CD and do something like:

    mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda
    mount /dev/hdb9 /mnt/hdb

    Assuming that hda1 is a partition on your working hda and hdb9 is the
    partition with your important files. You will probably first have to
    create the mount points with something like:

    mkdir /mnt/hda
    mkdir /mnt/hdb

    If you would like to mount your partitions elsewere change the mount
    points to whatever you like.

    > and recover my installation or just re-install on hdb.

    Before doing a new installation on hdb I would carefully investigate why
    it broke. If it has broken once it is very likely to break again. If you
    are really sure there is only a logical error on hdb you might be able to
    fix it with fsck without having to reinstall everything.

    regards Henrik 

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