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up for a real challenge? (mounting problems)

after a power failure, my box would not boot. it stopped and told me that fsck failed...or something.
so no problem, i thought. ill just reinstall, cuz i have /home on a separate hd, hdb1.
so i boot from my DVD, and tell YaST2 to format partitions on hda; root, swap and /usr and then mount hdb1 as /home without formatting.

well...it didnt work as planned. i got an error msg telling me that YaST was unable to mount hdb1 to mnt/home

now i have installed everything on hda just to get it running so i could log on here on LQ and ask you guys for help...

i need to be able to mount hdb1 so i can rescue at least some of the data there!

heeeelp!!

my current fstab file(/data1 seems to me to mount hdb1, but when i open /data1 in konqueror, the folder is empty):

Code:

/dev/hda2            /                    reiserfs  acl,user_xattr        1 1

/dev/hdb1            /data1              auto      noauto,user          0 0

/dev/hda1            swap                swap      pri=42                0 0

devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0

proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0

usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0

sysfs                /sys                sysfs      noauto                0 0

/dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs      fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

/dev/fd0            /media/floppy        subfs      fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

Note the noauto flag in your fstab.
Mount this drive manually to /mnt/whatever
See if you can access it that way.
If you can, cp the contents to /home.

Quote:

Mount this drive manually to /mnt/whatever

thanks for the suggestion, but how do i mount manually?

Code:

mount -t <filesystype> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/whatever

Quote:

by that you mean reiserfs...right?

:confused:

If that's what it is - then yep - you are correct sir.

i get this error

Code:

# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/backup

mount: mount point /mnt/backup does not exist

Did you create the folder 'backup' in /mnt before u ran the command? That looks like the error when the folder does not exist.

Code:

root@ZaphyR# mkdir /mnt/backup

It sounds to me like the drive itself has failed. You may be doomed no matter what you try. Does the drive itself even show any activity?

If you can't get it to mount manually, I think you should start looking into drive recovery options.

The drive hasn't failed.
Let him figure out some syntax before we scare the crap out of him....

*Note to self*

Buy a UPS.

i am starting to become a little worried....

i created the folder now, /mnt/backup, and ran the command again
with this result

Code:

# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/backup

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,

      or too many mounted file systems

do simply:

Code:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/backup

then i get this

Code:

# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/backup

mount: you must specify the filesystem type