OT: Partition table lost

[Davis Johnson]

I know this is a long shot, along the lines of "is it plugged in", but 
make sure that the device special files (/dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1 etc) exist 
and have the correct major/minor device numbers, permissions etc.

I had similar symptoms once on a system with an unreasonable number of 
SCSI disks. Those past the point of reason had much the symptoms you 
describe until I got /dev straightend out.

sda and sdb should be right already for you, though.

Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc wrote:

>  Yes, looks like kernel sees it:
># cat /proc/partitions
>...
>   8    16  194131168 sdb
>   8    17  194129428 sdb1
>
>  But none of the fs utilities do (e2fsck, mount, fdisk). There is ext3 filesystem on this partition, how do I get it
>back? Is there a specific module(s) I should be looking to tell kernel to make the partition available to the rest of
>the system?
>
>  
>
>>>  Below is partial output of dmesg related to scsi.
>>>      
>>>
>>....
>>    
>>
>>>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
>>> sda: sda1 sda2
>>>      
>>>
>>        ^^^^^^
>>......
>>    
>>
>>>SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
>>> sdb: sdb1
>>>      
>>>
>>        ^^
>>
>>So, as far as kernel is concerned, you have your partition tables
>>even if you cannot find them with fdisk (where most likely you are
>>trying to list wrong types).  Try typing 'cat /proc/partitions'
>>and see what this will show.
>>
>>  Michal
>>    
>>
>
>
>                                      Arc C.
>                                      achapkis at dls.net
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