[PLUG] KNOPPIX help
Daggett, Steve
Steve.Daggett at fiserv.com
Wed Jul 9 14:01:02 UTC 2003
Vincent Yau:
>
> I just booted KNOPPIX and it is running great. I am very tempted
> to mount my harddrive and see if I can salvage some data.
> I did not remember what filesystem it was using, I tried both
> ext2 and ext3,
> but both options complain that it is the wrong filesystem.
>
> Is there any other trick I can try? Thanks for any tip/pointer.
>
In order:
Check your boot logs for errors. See if the drive was identified during
boot.
cat /proc/ide/hda/model
You should see the drive model number. This will tell you if the drive is
on the IDE bus and the controller is responding to IDE commands.
fdisk /dev/hda, and then "p" to print the partition table, type "q" to
exit
It will show you that the disk is active and the partition table is
intact.
fsck -N /dev/hda
fsck should show what kind of file systems it finds on the disk.
Steve D...
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