[ale] fdisk sees partitions but no /dev/sda#

[Jim Kinney]

On the new hard drive did you format  the new partitions for ext2/3 (mke2fs)
?

2008/9/25 Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com>

> hey,
>
> I backed up some files for a friend by installing an extra hard drive and
> tarring up a filesystem w/a rescue cd.  I'm now trying to reverse the
> process but the rescue system doesn't have block devices for the
> partitions.  it has /dev/sda and fdisk -l /dev/sda shows the partitions but
> w/o /dev/sda2 I can't get it to mount.
>
> I know this is probably something simple but as most of you know I'm more
> of a DBA than sysadmin per se - I can ask my coworkers in the morn but I'd
> rather get it done tonight (they've already been pretty patient).
>
> can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>
> thx!
>
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