"Deleted"? one of my dual boot partitions!!

[frazelle09]

Well, this is not good. After running testdisk i must have "deleted" my Freespire partition. Sigh. Under Control Panel, Volume Manager, i only have winxp now (i have a dual boot sys.). i haven't turned off my computer, thinking that if i do, i will only have access to xp again. i can't figure out how to get testdisk to "recover" the other partition. i wonder if GParted would work... Under Control Center, Partitions, it still shows rootfs, /, reiserfs, 28,050 MB, etc. as well as the /mnt/winxp partition, so i suppose i still "have" my partition, it's just not listed in the Volume Manager. i wonder how i can put it back...

Have a great afternoon!

P.S. 1 - Downloaded & installed GParted & ran it. It shows one WinXP partition and another, 27 gig., unallocated, partition. It also gives the 1st Sector of the unallocated partition as well as the last one. Is this sufficient enough info. to reestablish this partition as reiserfs, w/o losing any info.?

[iwanabeguru]

may fsck help you
can you read or mount the partition?
is it listed in /dev
is it your root partition?

[frazelle09]

Dear iwanabeguru. Thanks for replying! In reply to your questions...

i am not only "reading" the partition, but i am using it to work at this very moment and used it yesterday to send e-mail, work in OpenOffice, print and everything else. i haven't shut down my computer yet for fear of not being able to start it back up. It's still running. It must be Linux!

Is it listed in /dev? Uh, i have a bunch of items listed in /dev, from .static to zero, many of them folders, so i don't know what else to answer.

i think it is my root partition although i'm not sure. On this hard disk, i first had WinXP, then used GParted to create a second partition. Then i installed Freespire in the second partition and obtained a dual boot system which has been working just fine. Then, since i'm trying to get away from Win, i decreased the size of the the Win partition, again with Gparted, and allocated it to Freespire. AFter a short while, a month or so, i noticed that i was running out of room on my FreeS. partition and when i did a file check it said that that partition was only 8gig. i have a 40 gig Hd. The last time i did the partition thing, i left Win with 10 gig., so FreeS. should have about 30. When i saw this i started hunting around for how to "fix" it. That was 2 days ago and my computer has been on and working since then.

i did find a command to run yesterday. Here is the output...

steve@LaGrandota:~$ /sbin/debugreiserfs /dev/hda2
debugreiserfs 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)


Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting

Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x302 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Count of blocks on the device: 7181040
Number of bitmaps: 220
Blocksize: 4096
Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks):529262
Root block: 2687117
Filesystem is NOT clean
Tree height: 5
Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
Objectid map size 268, max 972
Journal parameters:
Device [0x0]
Magic [0x565ad97c]
Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 1
Max transaction length 1024 blocks
Max batch size 900 blocks
Max commit age 30
Blocks reserved by journal: 0
Fs state field: 0x0:
sb_version: 2
inode generation number: 1906117
UUID: d868fc75-4d7d-442e-89ec-5b57639588a5
LABEL:
Set flags in SB:
ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

What do you think?

Have a great day!

[devils casper]

post the output of 'fdisk -l' and 'df -h' commands.






casper

[frazelle09]

Casper, thanks a lot for answering! Hope you're having a great evening over there!

Here is the result...

steve@LaGrandota:~$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 20544 10354144+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

steve@LaGrandota:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 28G 27G 820M 98% /
/dev/root 28G 27G 820M 98% /
df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied
tmpfs 10M 588K 9.5M 6% /dev
rootfs 28G 27G 820M 98% /
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm

What does the above mean...? Have a great day!

[frazelle09]

Sorry, it looks like i ran the second command as non-root. Here is the result as root

steve@LaGrandota:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 28G 27G 820M 98% /
/dev/root 28G 27G 820M 98% /
/dev/root 28G 27G 820M 98% /dev/.static/dev
tmpfs 10M 588K 9.5M 6% /dev
rootfs 28G 27G 820M 98% /
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm

[devils casper]

fdisk is showing only one partition and you are right, on reboot, Linux will be gone.
i think we can retrieve partition table. post the output of these commands

cat /proc/partitions
hdparm -g /dev/hda
hdparm -g /dev/hda1
hdparm -g /dev/hda2

casper

[frazelle09]

Command (m for help): cat /proc/partitions
DOS Compatibility flag is not set

Command (m for help): q

steve@LaGrandota:~$ hdparm -g /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0

steve@LaGrandota:~$ hdparm -g /dev/hda1

/dev/hda1:
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 20707722, start = 63

steve@LaGrandota:~$ hdparm -g /dev/hda2

/dev/hda2:
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 57448440, start = 20707785

sorry... finally figured out the command for the first command...

cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

3 0 39082680 hda
3 1 10353861 hda1
3 2 28724220 hda2

[devils casper]

Command (m for help): cat /proc/partitions
DOS Compatibility flag is not set

did you execute this code within 'fdisk' : prompt?
execute 'cat /proc/partitions' at teminal/konsole's prompt.





casper

[frazelle09]

Casper, i believe that that is what i did. In fact i think i opened a new Konsole, did su, password, and then

cat /proc/partitions, yup, that's what i did. In fact here is the previous line...

steve@LaGrandota:~$ su
Password:
LaGrandota:/home/steve# cat /proc/partitions