[NMLUG] Linux upgrade puzzler

[wjl at icecavern.net (Wesley J. Landaker)]

On Friday 29 December 2006 14:22, lee wrote:
> Results of cat /proc/partitions /proc/mounts
>
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>    3     0   39070080 hda
>    3     1    6136798 hda1
>    3     2          1 hda2
>    3     5     506016 hda5
>    3     6   32427171 hda6

Okay, so you have 4 partitions. Judging only from their size, 2 of the look 
like data (hda1 and hda6), one looks like swap (hda5) and one looks like 
partition with nothing on it (hda2).

> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
> none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
> /dev/root /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,noatime,data=ordered 0 0
> udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
> tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
> capifs /dev/capi capifs rw 0 0
> binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0

Here, you don't have any of the partitions mounted--I'm guessing this was 
from a live-CD or something?

What you can try now is something like this:

mkdir /mnt/hda1
mkdir /mnt/hda6
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6

Now look in /mnt/hda1 and /mnt/hda6 and see if your "missing" data is 
actually in one of those.

My *guess* is that your hda1 is your old "/" partition, but has data in home 
(i.e. /mnt/hda1/home) and hda6 is your old "/home" partition.

If you don't find what you're looking for, it might help to work on this a 
little more interactively (e.g. XMPP, IRC, or a shared screen session).

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl at icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl at icecavern.net>
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