accessing hdb after reinstall

itsjustme · 04-23-2005, 09:20 PM

As a result of this, I am reinstalling slackware 10.1.
During the previous install I created 2 partitionons on hdb and I downloaded some files on the first partition, it was known as /extra1.
During the reinstall I didn't rerun fdisk and I didn't touch those partitions when I recreated swap and / on hda. Now, the 2 partitions on hdb, /extra1 and /extra2 are no where to be found. They weren't in fstab, so I simply edited them in. But I still can't cd to /extra1 or /extra2, either as user or as root.

Code:

bash-3.00# whoami
root
bash-3.00# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1         250     2008093+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2   *         251        4866    37078020   83  Linux
bash-3.00# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 30.0 GB, 30000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3647 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1        1825    14659281   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            1826        3647    14635215   83  Linux
bash-3.00# 
bash-3.00# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda2        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
/dev/hdb1        /extra1          reiserfs    defaults         1   2
/dev/hdb2        /extra2          reiserfs    defaults         1   2
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
bash-3.00# 
bash-3.00# cd /extra1
bash: cd: /extra1: No such file or directory
bash-3.00# cd /extra2
bash: cd: /extra2: No such file or directory
bash-3.00#

Maybe my fifth column needs to be 0 for those two entries, or something.
(note: the above stuff was copied and pasted after a reboot)

How can I get back at the files I downloaded to /extra1 without reinstalling and re-running fdisk and wiping out the files there and downloading them again?

Thanks

egag · 04-23-2005, 09:49 PM

i think you have to make some mountpoints first.

just do ( as root ) :

#mkdir /extra1
#mkdir /extra2

and then :

#mount /extra1 /extra2

when you reboot, they will be mounted auto.
edit : but there's no need for a reboot now .

egag

itsjustme · 04-23-2005, 10:04 PM

Hey, that worked, except I had to explicitly:
mount /dev/hda1 /extra1
mount /dev/hda2 /extra2

I rebooted anyway just to be sure.

I guess I was expecting fstab to know about the previously mounted mount points and somehow just remount them or I just had my head up my.. uh... n/m

Thanks.

itsjustme · 04-23-2005, 10:10 PM

Interestingly, I ran 'ls /' and I see that /extra1 and /extra2 have retained the user and group setting that I had chown'ed and chgrp'ed to previously, rather than root root.