He's dead Jim (was: Re: Filesystem seems to have taken a hit)
From: Mark Adams (madams9_at_junodot.com)
Date: 12/31/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:54:04 -0700
Here's the latest in my sad saga.
Okay, I tried it. See inline for results.
Mark Adams wrote:
> Glenn Serpas wrote:
>
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> I've read your initial thread. If I understand all that has occurred,
>> your
>> root file system(ext2) is on /dev/hda7 . Your swap is on /dev/hda8 . The
>> partition returning the errors is /dev/hda7. You can mount all
partitions
>> and read their data using Knoppix. You also appear to have a DVD
>> burner. I
>> don't think the swap partition is the problem. Linux can run with out
>> swap
>> space if you have enough ram. Remove the swap entry from fstab and
see if
>> you can boot up Mandrake 9.2 .
>>
>> 1. If Knoppix will burn CD's burn all the files on /dev/hda7 to a DVD.
Okay, done. It took 2.5 DVD's and a couple of hours to get all, but I
got it.
>> 2. Back Up your other partitions.
Skipped it. Call me irresponsible....
>> 3. Delete /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 and recreate them. Use ext3
>> for /dev/hda7 . You can use fdisk for this, but the Mandrake install
>> has a
>> good GUI partition manager.
Used QTParted, or whatever it's called in Knoppix. Easily done.
>> 4. mkfs both partitions.
Okay...
>> 3. Run fsck on the new ext3 file system.
Yup...
>> 4. Restore the files from the dvd.
I would never have guessed it takes longer to copy the files back to the
disc than to burn the DVD in the first place.
>> 5. Edit the fstab in the etc directory of this partition. Change the
file
>> system on /dev/hda7 to ext 3. Delete mtab if it exists.
I knew that when you copied all the files from CD/DVD media it copies
them as read-only. Well, let's just "chmod 775 /mnt/hda7/*".
>> 6. Boot into recovery mode and tell it to reinstall the boot loader.
Hmm, why does it want to mount everything under /mnt? And why is it
giving me a raid error when this is all IDE?
>> 7. Cross you fingers and try to reboot into Mandrake 9.2 .
DAMNIT! Nothing but 99 99 99 99....
>> If that does not work, I'm out of ideas. It may be you drive is going
>> bad,
>> or the partition table is really messed up.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>> Glenn
I will be spending the next three days + putting this thing together.
I've been challenged and the machine won. I feel like I've given it all
I (and many good folks in these newsgroups) have.
Thanks again folks.
Feliz Nuevo Anyo, ya'll.
Mark
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