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Unable to mount sda2

Asked by Raghu

My partition on Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) is named sda2. I think it has suddenly become unmounted... not sure why.. I'm unable to access any of my personal data which is stored on it... can somebody please help me? Thanks!

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Eric Bursley (eric-bursley) said : 		#1

First I would double check you have the correct partition by using sudo fdisk -l. This will show all partitions on your system, and verify that /dev/sda2 is a valid Linux partition.
If it is, and it does not show output of sudo mount, check your /etc/fstab: cat /etc/fstab. If its there, then I would try to mount it using sudo mount /dev/sda2.
If its not, I would add an entry. Ubuntu uses a UUID for the partition, so its possible the UUID became lost, but mounting it directly using partition number to a mount point should work. sudo mount /dev/sda2 /home
If the mount didn't work, check your syslog for error messages, and post back what is seen.

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Raghu (raghunandanhegde) said : 		#2

I tried fdisk -l. It is saying the type of file system for sda2 is HPFS/NTFS. It also shows an asterisk under the Boot column...

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TuniX12 (tunix12-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

HPFS/NTFS means that you have a bootble Windows partition i suggest you to boot on windows than restart properly into ubuntu it will be able to mount it

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Raghu (raghunandanhegde) said : 		#4

Hey thanks, that solved my problem for now.. :)