Can't mount /dev/hda3, now I'm '/home'less!

[Michael R. Head]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 15:24 +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
>   Rather than booting from the disk, have you tried booting from the CD
> to a recovery console (server disk) or gui (desktop disk) and running
> `file -s /dev/hda3` or `dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/null` and/or mounting it
> just to see if it can read from the disk when _nothing_ else has been
> loaded that could possibly be accessing it? By doing this, you can
> isolate the issue further. Whether you can mount within a live-cd or not
> can help rule out or confirm lower level issues than fstab and mount.

It mounts just fine when I use the Desktop CD and double click on the
drive in nautilus. I can see all my files just fine. 

> cheers,
> Owen.
> 
> p.s. example file -s output:
> root at mattimeo:~# file -s /dev/hdb1
> /dev/hdb1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)
> (large files)
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
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