| === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond | ||
| philipballew | would someone recommend a way to fix a hd partition that wont mount? | 02:55 |
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| philipballew | ther are several ways and figured one might be better then another | 02:56 |
| akk | I usually do fsck before panicking. | 03:00 |
| philipballew | akk how would i do that :) | 03:00 |
| akk | fsck /dev/sd0b or whatever the partition is | 03:02 |
| philipballew | ok. lets try it. thanks! | 03:02 |
| akk | though man fsck says you can also specify it by uuid or mount point | 03:02 |
| akk | What filesystem type is it? | 03:02 |
| philipballew | ntfs i think | 03:02 |
| akk | Oh, that's different | 03:03 |
| akk | you might need special fsck arguments | 03:03 |
| philipballew | its an externinal | 03:03 |
| philipballew | i see | 03:03 |
| akk | at least, fsck for vfat won't do anything unless you specify several "I really mean it, yes, really make changes to the filesystem" options | 03:03 |
| akk | It doesn't hurt to run it, but if it looks like it made changes, be sure to run it again after it's finished | 03:04 |
| philipballew | i looked at testdisk | 03:04 |
| philipballew | that seemes possible | 03:04 |
| akk | and if it asks the same questions all over again, then read man fsck for the "really write, don't just pretend" option. | 03:04 |
| philipballew | how do i find the mount point | 03:05 |
| akk | Where do you normally mount it? | 03:05 |
| akk | If it's usually automounted and shows up in random places in /media or wherever, then specifying mount point probably isn't the way to go. | 03:05 |
| philipballew | well i usually just stick it in my usb port and it does the rest... haha | 03:05 |
| philipballew | yeah, i know thats what you wernt asking | 03:06 |
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