Fedora16 missing after resizing partition

casp3r · #1 13th June 2012, 04:14 PM

Hello Forumers,

I did research about bootloader and i know my Fedora is still there, untouched. after i resized my partition i installed Ubuntu and now i'm running on Ubuntu. My machine currently had Windows, Fedora and Ubuntu. Now everytime i started my machine, GRUB is working fine as its listed out Ubuntu and Windows as option to boot from. The problem is Fedora is not there which i really2 want it back.

I'm very new to Linux but i do have little knowledge of basic

here is what i have done to fix this

Code:

fsdisk -l

and here is the result

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6ff5732f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63      530144      265041    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda2         1686824   311612804   154962990+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       319645312   833805629   257080159    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       833806334   976773119    71483393    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5       893380608   894402559      510976   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       894404608   976773119    41184256   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda7       833806336   893380607    29787136   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

next i did this

Code:

fsck.ext2 /dev/sda5

and appeared this

Code:

e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
dev/sda5: clean, 235/128016 files, 100114/510976 blocks

and next thing

Code:

tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
The filesystem already has a journal.

and finally

Code:

mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sysimage

Code:

mount: mount point /mnt/sysimage does not exist

can anybody tell me what is (LBA) in dev/sda4 ? thanks in advance

p/s : IT WAS FIXED NOW THANK YOU GUYS LINUX FTW

tashirosgt · #2 14th June 2012, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by casp3r

Code:

mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sysimage

Code:

mount: mount point /mnt/sysimage does not exist

Did you create the directory /mnt/sysimage before trying to mount the sda5 filesystem there?

Code:

mkdir /mnt/sysimage

hmmsjan · #3 14th June 2012, 05:05 AM

Dear tashirosgt,

As already suggested before, you're missing the /mnt/sysimage mountmoint. Just create the directory.
sda5 contains the /boot files, not the whole Fedora, that's hidden in the LVM partition sda6

Because the partition table is limited to 4 entries, the concept of "Extended partition" is developed in the MS-DOS time and the information about additional partitions is stored within this partition,
not in the boot record.

So sda4 is an "extended" partition and a placeholder for the "Logical partitions"
sda5 to sda7.

sda6 contains the Fedora logical volumes which might or might not seen by Ubuntu, depending
whether the LVM is recognized and the LVM driver is loaded.

Good luck!