Re: Linux meltdown ... (help...)

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I had a RedHat 6.1 machine, which has been running fine for several
> months, die an ignoble death today.
> I am trying to attempt a 'rescue' of the drive.
> I have several partitions set up. (hda1, hda5, hda6, hda7, hda8). The
> RedHat documents state that I can mount these using:
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
> But only the hda1 and hda5 partitions show any contents.
> In particular, I'm hoping to save information that was stored in the
> /var directory (I don't know which partition it was in...).
> Any clues?

If you can mount root (I assume /dev/hda1) then you can look in /etc/fstab to
see what partition /var was.  Do the other partitions not mount?  Or do they
mount and look empty?