Hi all !
My hard disk used to be divided into 5 partitions :
/dev/hda1 was fat32 with Windows XP on it 5 (~ 30 GB)
/dev/hda3 was ext3, and empty : i wanted to install Ubuntu Lite on it (~10 GB)
/dev/hda7 (but not sure about the number) was etx3 : / partition for Ubuntu (~ 5 GB)
/dev/hda8 (not sure) was swap (~ 500 GB)
/dev/hda9 (not sure) was /home ( ~ 40 GB)
I tried to install Ubuntu Lite, but before the installer had even started up, it started fiddling my my partitions (by running mkswap) ... So I rebooted the machine ... and of course GRUB wouldn't show up anymore ... So I started Knoppix up to see what was wrong.
Here's my /etc/fstab under Knoppix :
Code:
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
So Knoppix has only detected /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 ...
/dev/hda is definitely swap. And I can't mount /dev/hda2 :
This is what sudo mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 shows :
Code:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
So I tried mounting is as ext2, ext3 and vfat, and it says :
Code:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
However, fdisk says /dev/hda2 is of type 83 (Linux) ...
What shall I do to get my old partitions back ?
Thanks in advance,
Alex.