[ltp] Mounting

[Jim Hughes]

This is just a idea off the top of my head but you could try to use a
live cd such as knoppix and go about it that way.  The reason that I
say this is that the live distro would be handling the mounting of the
hdd partitions and that would just leave you with attempting to
extract your data.  Depending on how much data you have you might need
to get access to another computer that you can put the data on via a
network connection or dump it off onto a usb drive.

Hope this helps.

Jim


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:07:59 -0400, SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> In the last Dunedin Paul was so gracious to help with my crashed laptop.
> Thanks to Paul I can now boot the computer into root and as root I can
> send/receive email which will be the easy to transfer the data I am trying to
> recover.
> 
> For those of you who are wandering what happened I crashed a Mandrake 9.1
> system by visiting some web site which apparently had a java script which
> trashed /home. Attempts by myself to recover by reinstalling the system
> failed with such attempts finally destroying system boot. Paul was so
> gracious as to modify the boot such that system now boots directly but /home
> is still obviated.
> 
> Currently I am stilltrying to extract critical file data from a directory I
> called Common_Data.
> 
> As originally set up partitions were as follows per cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda5 /home/trunk/Common_Dara vfat
>      iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2
> /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /home ext3
> /dev/hda9 / ext3 noatime 1 1
> /dev/hda10 /home/trunk/Linux_Data reiserfs notail,noatime 1 2
> /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> 
> The following attempts were made by Paul and Myself to mount
> /home/trunk/Common_Data
> First Paul attempted to mount this partition under /mnt/data and then I
> attempted to mount it under /mnt/Common_Data by use of the following command:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/data
> mount -t auto /dev/hda5 /mnt/data
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/Common_Data
> mount -t auto /dev/hda5 /mnt/Common_Data
> 
> The following error message was received:
> Mount:   wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many
> mounted file systems.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as how to proceed to mount this partition so
> that the data may be extrated.
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
> 
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