I just had my /home /var and / partitons vanish from my sight! I was
installing some memory so I shut down the machine and installed it. When
I booted back up I got a kernel panic because of some error on device
03:05. The drive was partitioned like so:
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 Extended Partition
/dev/hda5 /
/dev/hda6 /home
/dev/hda7 /var
/dev/hda8 swap
I am not sure about any of the sizes. I grabbed another hardrive and
installed a fresh copy of linux so I could mount my hosed drive and see if
I could recover anything. Once the new install was finished I fdisked the
hosed drive to see what was going on. hda1 looked ok and the hda2
extended partition looked ok, but hda5 had some massive blocks assigned to
it. hda6, 7, and 8 were gone. fdisk also displayed some errors, but would
allow me to manipulate the partition tables. I went ahead and made hda5
the entire size of the extended partition. I then mounted it and had a
look. All of my root partition info seemed to be there, but what I
really want to salvage is my /home dir. Other than just trying to guess
where my partitions began and ended, is there some utility out there that
can scan a drive and look for superblocks or some such? Is there any way
for me to get back my partitions? Any idea what caused this crap to begin
with?
It's RH6.2 btw, and yes, I did try removing the memory first.
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