On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:46 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: > Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, M. Lewis wrote: > > > >> Have I missed something? Is there any hope at all for my data? > > > > Try to run: > > fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > ...to list the parittion on that hard drive. Maybe you have created > > a partition there and your data resides on that partition, and you would > > have to mount /dev/hdc1 or /dev/hdc2 instead... > > > > Yes, you were indeed correct. There is a partition, and I have > subsequently tried all the superblocks on that partition (hdc2): > > [root@moe ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hdc2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM > > > Still no luck though. > > -- > > Unix - where you can thrown the manual on the keyboard and get a command. > 00:45:01 up 10:33, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.12 > > Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org > Linux LVM will never mount as an ordinary ext3 partition. This might help: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-64964.html Calin ================================================= I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov
