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Screwed Partition table - scary ! (advice)



Hi List !

Out of the blue my RH 6.1 installation failed to boot, when it gave error
code 16 when trying to mount the extended partitions on my master HD
(/dev/hda5 and up):

/dev/hda1               202220     44193    147587  23% /
/dev/hdc1             19120383  13633209   4490264  75% /home
/dev/hda8              2324384        20   2206288   0% /local
/dev/hda5               396623      2531    373611   1% /root
/dev/hda7              3960944    754900   3004832  20% /usr
/dev/hda6              1011928    131628    828896  14% /var

When the kernel failed, it dumped me to the maintenance shell, where I
fsck'ed the HD, but it didn't produce any problems in the FS; manual
mounts went fine too. Alas, regular boot didn't work yet. So I assumed
that the partition table in the disk was somehow screwed and I used fdisk
to rewrite the partition table (without changing it) onto /dev/hda.

It solved the problem, but in the meantime, I wonder whether I should keep
the "problematic" hard disk, or as in the old saying, "shit happens" and
this is a HD MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures thing and have the disk
replaced, or a worst case scenario where I did it by mistake. (...?)

Anybody ?

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Miki Lewinger - mikil@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
     Computer Systems Enginneer
         Life Sciences dept
   Office Phone: 6461358 (int. 8358)





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