[wellylug] Fsck'd Partitions... helped...

[Jo Booth]

On 23/04/2006, at 08:59 , David Antliff wrote:

>>> What does fdisk -l /dev/hdx make of your disk?
>
> The -u switch is slightly more useful - working with blocks is harder.
>
> fdisk -l -u /dev/hdb
>
>> It is borked tho - still.  just waiting for a complete backup to  
>> run through.  over ssh to hfs+ disk using dd - so far 1.5 Gig in 4  
>> mins of CPU time.. looking promising. no dishes to do tonight. ;)
>
> Are you planning to repair the original disk, or the backup? Sounds  
> like space is limited so you might have to operate on the disk  
> itself, but ideally you'd duplicate the backup and experiment with  
> that first.
>
> Good luck! :)
>
> -- 
> David.

It's sorta fixed.. I can now access all the partitions and data..  
after running gpart... but I can't boot the windows yet.  I'm none  
too keen to try "FIXDISK" again, but might try "fixmbr" on the  
windows recovery.  I was tempted to trash the windows and switch the  
machine to fully linux.. but for now i've just exported the  
partitions using Ubunut Live CD, and mounted them on my wifes login  
on the iMac.  Opera M2 mail/web seems to work ok with the stored mail  
and pref on the window machine.  yay for cross platform programs.

fdisk now gives the following.  no extended partitions? :|

ubuntu at claire:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 58168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1        1052      530113+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2           19731       19906       88324   82  Linux swap /  
Solaris
/dev/hdb3   *       19907       39334     9791586    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb4           39334       58156     9486351    b  W95 FAT32
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