Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Help me!! Mac patition is gone!! (fwd)
From: Arthur2 (arthur2@oleane.hay-france.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 04:37:10 MST
Here was the conclusion of the thread. Could there be a way in the future
to prevent this kind of corruption? Can the -force option allow to mount a
partition on both Linux and MOL side? Is this the reason of the
corruption?
Jerome
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:28:37 +0000
From: "Sungwoo, Lim" <sungwoo@cad.strath.ac.uk>
To: Christian Jaeger <christian.jaeger@rektorat.ethz.ch>
Cc: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Urgent!!! Help me!! Mac patition is gone!!
Hi Christian Jaeger,
Now I fixed the partition with Norton utility.
It was horrible experience....
I shouldn't use -force and -rw function.
It destroyed boot directory and something else,
but fortunately norton diskdoctor fixed all.
Strange thing was it didn't affect to another volume at all.
I made three partition for MacOS as you see below,
but after crash the other two volume was successfully mounted.
Only MacOS system volume couldn't remount.
By the way... is it possible to mount HFS+ file in MOL?
The document said that it is impossible because current linux
cannot recognise HFS+ format... I have to try again...
Thanks for your concern...
Sungwoo
Christian Jaeger wrote:
> At 14:07 Uhr +0100 14.3.2000, Sungwoo, Lim wrote:
> >I modified the /etc/molrc as
> >
> >/dev/hda7 -force -rw
> >/dev/hda8 -force -rw
> >/dev/hda9 -force -rw
>
> I've never used '-force'. The comments in molrc say it's for non-HFS
> partitions, but I'm also mounting HFS+ partitions without '-force'. Did you
> mount these partitions also on the linux side read-write? (Normally MOL
> then doesn't mount them under MacOS readwrite, but perhaps the -force flag
> forces it?) If both systems write to a partition, they will quickly be
> damaged beyond repair (this happened to me with an early version of MOL).
>
> >Others are only includes data, so after crash they are still alived.
>
> (I don't understand you.)
>
> >However, after crash the MacOS in MOL, when I reboot the MacOS,
> >it couldn't boot.
> >
> >I checked with disk first aid (I booted with booting CD), it said that
> >my main volume can not remount!!!!!
>
> (? So did it repair it and afterwards didn't want to mount it, or did it
> fail to repair? Or could it even not try to repair it? Does it have no
> problems with other volumes on the same disk?)
>
> >I double checked with Apple's Disk initial tool, and my main volume is
> >still in, but just can't remount.!!!!!
>
> >How can I remount my main volume? Can I remount it with pdisk? ro fdisk?
>
> Do NOT use fdisk, since it is for msdos partition tables. With pdisk, you
> only can show and manipulate the partition table, which should not have
> been modified by the MacOS/MOL crash.
>
> You could try to mount your mac partitions out of linux (you could use the
> installer CD for booting linux), and see what's on there. But I would mount
> them only readonly (mount -o ro ..) if they might be damaged, so that they
> are not screwed up even more.
>
> There's also a MOL mailing list (see mol homepage, www.ibrium.se/linux).
>
> Christian.
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