I'd really appreciate some help with this but I do fear the worst.
Yesterday I had a broken super block on my boot drive sda1 which I fixed by finding the backup superblocks with:
mke2fs -n /dev/sda1
Then by replacing the corrupted superblock with:
e2fsck -b <backup_superblock_number>/dev/sda1
This I thought had fixed the problem, Linux booted up went through a fschk on all disks which passed and gave me a desktop that seemed okay. I left it over night and thought I'd grab the home partition and replace the physical disk in the morning to be on the safe side.
Today I can't see sda?
lsscsi returns:
[0:0:0:0] cd/dvd SONY DVD RW AW-G170A 1.71 /dev/sr0 [2:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD5000KS-00M 07.0 /dev/sda [3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST31500341AS CC1H /dev/sdb [4:0:0:0] disk ATA ST31500341AS CC1H /dev/sdc [6:0:0:0] disk Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 /dev/sdd [6:0:0:1] disk Generic USB CF Reader 1.01 /dev/sde [6:0:0:2] disk Generic USB SM Reader 1.02 /dev/sdf [6:0:0:3] disk Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 /dev/sdg [7:0:0:0] disk SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.01 /dev/sdh
So the node sda is there and the physical disk is being reported correctly. sda1 is not seen in gparted and fdisk -l doesn't show it up either.
mke2fs -n /dev/sda1 returns:
mke2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) Could not stat /dev/sda1 --- No such file or directory
The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
There is obviously something wrong with the disk which I'm going to replace but I would like to get the data from /home if at all possible. This isn't a raid disk or anything fancy just standard ext3 with 1 primary partition / and an extended partition containing a swap partition. Any help from the ALUG Community in getting me to my data would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, BJ