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#1 2005-09-14 12:26:20

kozaki
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messed partitions on Arch Install but dunno why

Hi Archies smile

I'm installing Arch on my main PC (that allready has Mandriva Cooker & a Win98 on it), after having tested it succesfully on my laptop & a small server.

Desktop PC's HDD has some room for another system, something like this :
hda1     1gig vfat (win98)
hda5-6 15gig vfat
hda7-9 10gig ext3 (Mandriva /boot, / & /usr)
hda10-12 ext3 (mandriva /home & /var/www)
Empty 9 gig  <------- Where to install Arch ///////////
hda13 512mo swap (mandriva /swap)
hda14  JFS (stockage partition)

I booted on Arch CD and went in partitioning the empty place on HDD : 2 partitions, / & /home. Created them then "Write" then "Go to menu".

On next step, I see  that hda13 & 14 have gone !??
I go back to FDISK and all I can see is "Not allocated space  50gig" !?
Woooh! What's that ?

Now I've been running some partition recovery tools like Ranish Partition & TestDisk. They still show all of initial partitions smile
But I now cannot boot Mandriva (it will boot, then end after checking file system)  :!:

Now 2 questions :
- How should I proceed to recover partition table altered with Arch's FDISK ?
- How such a problem may have hapened ?



[EDIT] TestDisk, after deeper analyze, shows no Extended Partition (but every Logical one) , and also that the "swap" partition is "D" (for "Deleted").
I dunno what to do roll


Seeded last month: Arch 50 gig, derivatives 1 gig
Desktop @3.3GHz 8 gig RAM, linux-ck
laptop #1 Atom 2 gig RAM, Arch linux stock i686 (6H w/ 6yrs old battery smile) #2: ARM Tegra K1, 4 gig RAM, ChrOS
Atom Z520 2 gig RAM, OMV (Debian 7) kernel 3.16 bpo on SDHC | PGP Key: 0xFF0157D9

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#2 2005-09-14 14:18:36

kozaki
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Re: messed partitions on Arch Install but dunno why

Allright, there *is* an Extended Partition (I'm learning slowly how to use TestDisk), and my files are still on HDD (as for the JFS stockage partition I can't see). Plus I used TestDisk to rebuild the MBR ---> for the bootable partition *only*
Which means Win98 starts flawlessly. How great :arf arf:
But Mandriva "has gone", the CD "rescue" mode fails to start, and I'm stucked : no Linux, not willing to give Arch another try before I understand how I messed the partitions when installing it.


Seeded last month: Arch 50 gig, derivatives 1 gig
Desktop @3.3GHz 8 gig RAM, linux-ck
laptop #1 Atom 2 gig RAM, Arch linux stock i686 (6H w/ 6yrs old battery smile) #2: ARM Tegra K1, 4 gig RAM, ChrOS
Atom Z520 2 gig RAM, OMV (Debian 7) kernel 3.16 bpo on SDHC | PGP Key: 0xFF0157D9

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#3 2005-09-14 14:58:15

kozaki
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Registered: 2005-06-13
Posts: 671
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Re: messed partitions on Arch Install but dunno why

[presently on my main PC with Knoppix kaella
Every partition visible in QTparted, files in the JFS partition 100% accessibles big_smile
I'm restoring boot sector from a recent backup with "dd if..."

Taking the occasion to create Arch partitions in available HDD unalocated free space.
While doing this, QTparted writes this :

No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout!  Parted can't resize this (yet).

Argh! after having unmouted all partitions in /mnt and created 2 new partitions with QTparted, now, all I can see in this partition is "Lost and Found"  :!:

Less & less understanding what's happening in here sad


Seeded last month: Arch 50 gig, derivatives 1 gig
Desktop @3.3GHz 8 gig RAM, linux-ck
laptop #1 Atom 2 gig RAM, Arch linux stock i686 (6H w/ 6yrs old battery smile) #2: ARM Tegra K1, 4 gig RAM, ChrOS
Atom Z520 2 gig RAM, OMV (Debian 7) kernel 3.16 bpo on SDHC | PGP Key: 0xFF0157D9

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