Mounting a hard-drive on secondary ide
Hi there:
I inadvertently renamed /lib to /lib1 on a system running linux kernel 2.x and as expected the system went beserk. I am saying this at the risk of being ridiculed so that some novice may be careful while dealing with system folders. Well i did that because i wanted to redirect the system libraries to a different folder but somehow goofed up.
Nonetheless i wanted to recover from this puddle so i reinserted this boot drive into a secondary ide of another linux system (8.x kernel 2.19x).
the system detected the partition table on the secondary ide and i
particularly mounted /dev/hdc5 the linux partition on /mnt/restoredrive
as mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdc5 /mnt/restoredrive
(no other mount types succeeded and the hardrive had windows xp + linux)
however when i did an ls /mnt/restoredrive it gave the following type of
error messages for each file under \ on the restoredrive
ls: \mnt\restoredrive\bin no such file or directory
ls:\mnt\restoredrive\usr no such file or directory
.
.
.
and so on for each file under \.
as you might have figured out that my intent is to be able to rename lib1 as :
mv /mnt/restoredrive/lib1 /mnt/restoredrive/lib
if i did a cat on any of these files it saild stat failed on the files.
so i guess linux hasn't been able to successfully mount the file system.
Any solutions are most welcome.
Thanks,
amit
Last edited by linuxjuggler; 12-16-2003 at 12:47 AM.
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