Linux meltdown ... (help...)

["Will Fitzgerald" <fitzgerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

etc.

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?