ahelmick
January 5th, 2009, 02:42 AM
I have been writing a piece of software for months... my total project folder is around 30gig.
My internal hard drive on my compaq Nx7010 floundered and crashed and it is an older laptop so I am not completely surprised. I have a Seagate Freeagent Go attached and velcro'd to the lid and all my data was backed up. (USB external drive)
So I am booted to Ubuntu (latest version, booted by cd as my internal drive is dust) and I am attempting to partition the drive in such a way that I can install Windows (necessary evil) but mostly to re-install Ubuntu...
I use fdisk and the p command to view tables... I take the free space and make a new partition and the w to write...
error: (21 I think it was) changes will not be written until reboot, kernel retains current partitions...
SO... my current 2 partitions (not the new one I tried to create) are mounted and working and contain my 30 gig of work that I need to deliver next week. I am afraid to reboot as fdisk gives error and will not load and the partition manager states that my entire disk is unallocated.
However, I can still access the mounted partitions...as they are still loaded in the kernel.
HOW DO I LOAD THEM BACK TO THE DISK TABLE! Please... I cannot burn to CD, as the CD is the OS and is booted right now... (Live Disk boot Ubuntu) and I cannot seem to offload the data via Internet as it times out due to size.
I need to make sure that I do not lose 6 months worth of work that I am one week away from delivering. How do I reload the disk table that is stored in the kernel to the disk.
Again... the partitions are currently mounted and accessible... fdisk floundered when I tried to allocate the free space and now NONE of my partitions show up via disk. But, I can access them using mount.
I am afraid to reboot or turn the computer off. I have been uploading 500 meg a day using my Internet (upload limit) to online storage but this will take another 6 days to complete.
I might be also to load drivers for the LAN (RJ-45) and copy to another computer, if I wasn't 100's of miles away from home and I know not a soul!
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Again, how do I take the disk table residing in kernel memory and write it back to the disk?
My internal hard drive on my compaq Nx7010 floundered and crashed and it is an older laptop so I am not completely surprised. I have a Seagate Freeagent Go attached and velcro'd to the lid and all my data was backed up. (USB external drive)
So I am booted to Ubuntu (latest version, booted by cd as my internal drive is dust) and I am attempting to partition the drive in such a way that I can install Windows (necessary evil) but mostly to re-install Ubuntu...
I use fdisk and the p command to view tables... I take the free space and make a new partition and the w to write...
error: (21 I think it was) changes will not be written until reboot, kernel retains current partitions...
SO... my current 2 partitions (not the new one I tried to create) are mounted and working and contain my 30 gig of work that I need to deliver next week. I am afraid to reboot as fdisk gives error and will not load and the partition manager states that my entire disk is unallocated.
However, I can still access the mounted partitions...as they are still loaded in the kernel.
HOW DO I LOAD THEM BACK TO THE DISK TABLE! Please... I cannot burn to CD, as the CD is the OS and is booted right now... (Live Disk boot Ubuntu) and I cannot seem to offload the data via Internet as it times out due to size.
I need to make sure that I do not lose 6 months worth of work that I am one week away from delivering. How do I reload the disk table that is stored in the kernel to the disk.
Again... the partitions are currently mounted and accessible... fdisk floundered when I tried to allocate the free space and now NONE of my partitions show up via disk. But, I can access them using mount.
I am afraid to reboot or turn the computer off. I have been uploading 500 meg a day using my Internet (upload limit) to online storage but this will take another 6 days to complete.
I might be also to load drivers for the LAN (RJ-45) and copy to another computer, if I wasn't 100's of miles away from home and I know not a soul!
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Again, how do I take the disk table residing in kernel memory and write it back to the disk?