<div dir="ltr">sfdisk -R /dev/sda did it - thx!<br><br>I had made an ext2 filesystem on that partition and created a 32GB (gzipped) tarball of their old box from which I now need to suck the bulk of the files in it. I just needed to get it to mount & that did the trick.<br>
<br>muchos!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/25 Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 17:53 -0400, Sid Lane wrote:<br>
> hey,<br>
<br>
> I backed up some files for a friend by installing an extra hard drive<br>
> and tarring up a filesystem w/a rescue cd. I'm now trying to reverse<br>
> the process but the rescue system doesn't have block devices for the<br>
> partitions. it has /dev/sda and fdisk -l /dev/sda shows the<br>
> partitions but w/o /dev/sda2 I can't get it to mount.<br>
<br>
</div> Are you saying partition 2 exists in the table but it's not showing up<br>
in /dev or are you saying that you see partitions but there is no<br>
partition 2?<br>
<br>
What flavor rescue CD are you using?<br>
<br>
Did you just recently create those partitions or were they there before<br>
booting the rescue CD? If you just recently partitioned the drive, have<br>
you rebooted since partitioning (assuming a lame rescue disk here,<br>
obviously)?<br>
<br>
Run the following commands and post the results:<br>
<br>
uname -a<br>
sfdisk -d /dev/sda<br>
sfdisk -R # Force the kernel to reread the partition table<br>
cat /proc/partitions<br>
ls -l /dev/sd*<br>
<br>
If you are running udev, it should create devices as required, but that<br>
depends on the distro / flavor of rescue disk. My current preference is<br>
for the NST (Network Security Toolkit) CD which is currently based off<br>
of Fedora 8.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I know this is probably something simple but as most of you know I'm<br>
> more of a DBA than sysadmin per se - I can ask my coworkers in the<br>
> morn but I'd rather get it done tonight (they've already been pretty<br>
> patient).<br>
><br>
> can anyone tell me how to fix this?<br>
><br>
> thx!<br>
<br>
</div> Mike<br>
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