Re: [cobalt-users] still can't figure out how to recreate /dev/hdb1 and hdb2 is acting oddly

["Mike Hughes" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just curious, i havent really been following this, but when you do mount, it
asks to to specify mount point, do you have it set up in /etc/fstab
correctly? maybe try mounting like:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt??

im not an expert with mount, but i think the -t option is needed if the
mountpoint isnt setup in /etc/fstab

Regards,
Mike Hughes.

Message: 16
From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] still can't figure out how to recreate /dev/hdb1
and hdb2 is acting oddly
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:29:31 -0500
Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 17:21, jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 1) I lost my entry /dev/hdb1 - which is the 1st partition on my 2nd hard
> drive. Without this entry I can't dd my /dev/hda1 to my backup drive.  I
> can't dd and I obviously can't mount it. The /dev entries has a 'b' in the
> first position of the permissions, not sure what that means (I assume it
> means block-device). I cannot cp another entry to it either.  So I have no
> way right now to backup my primary partition.

 I still think you deleted the /dev/hdb1 link to the driver.

> 2) Also, my /dev/hdb2 has problems. I can do a dd:
> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2
>
> but when I try to mount it with:
> mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt

> I get:
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type.
>
> So that partition also has some strange problem. I thought re-partitioning
> would solve this one, but it did not.
>
> My /dev/hdb3 and /dev/hdb4 seem to be fine.
>
> I don't mind completely wiping out the backup drive and repartitioning,
> formatting, dd'ing ... but it doesn't seem to solve the problem.
>
> Any ideas on:
> 1) how do I get my /dev/hdb1 back

I think you screwed up your /dev/ directory when you were having the
previous
problem.
Maybe a tarball of a good /dev/ directory loaded on top of what you have.
Stick the disk in another system and see if you can access /dev/hdb1.

Does your RaQ3i have two ide connectors or are you running one ide cable
master / slave?

If you have two ide connectors, strap both drives as Master, that will make
the second drive hdc, then try and work with it.

All else fails restore the RaQ3i

> 2) why I can't mount /dev/hdb2 which *appears* to work, at least on the dd
>
Try    mount -t e2fs /dev/hdb2 /mnt/disk

--
Gerald Waugh
http://frontstreetnetworks.com         http://raqware.com
Front Street Networks LLC   Phone: +1 203 785 0699
229 Front Street, Ste. C, New Haven CT 06513-3203



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