[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Rob Funk]

On Thu 7 December 2006 9:36pm, Kent Broestl wrote:
> After mount -f /dev/hdf1 /storage the drive appears in the df and
> mount. but... hdf1 should be 40GB and it shows up as only 9.2GB (the
> same as hda2, aka / ) and the usage is exactly the same, too (696M).
> None of the files that were in /storage are present on ls -la
> /storage.

The fact that hdf1 and hda2 are showing identical numbers while being 
very different is suspicious.  I'd want to try hdf in a different 
computer.  At least reboot from a CD and look at it again.

> fdisk -lu /dev/hdf1 looks okay:

After that I'd try a fsck, with the filesystem unmounted.

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