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

[Sid Lane]

sfdisk -R /dev/sda did it - thx!

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.

muchos!

2008/9/25 Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>

> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 17:53 -0400, Sid Lane wrote:
> > 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.
>
>         Are you saying partition 2 exists in the table but it's not showing
> up
> in /dev or are you saying that you see partitions but there is no
> partition 2?
>
>        What flavor rescue CD are you using?
>
>        Did you just recently create those partitions or were they there
> before
> booting the rescue CD?  If you just recently partitioned the drive, have
> you rebooted since partitioning (assuming a lame rescue disk here,
> obviously)?
>
>        Run the following commands and post the results:
>
>        uname -a
>        sfdisk -d /dev/sda
>        sfdisk -R   # Force the kernel to reread the partition table
>        cat /proc/partitions
>        ls -l /dev/sd*
>
>        If you are running udev, it should create devices as required, but
> that
> depends on the distro / flavor of rescue disk.  My current preference is
> for the NST (Network Security Toolkit) CD which is currently based off
> of Fedora 8.
>
> > 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!
>
>         Mike
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