Partition issue on Mac drive

[Steve.York at hpa.com.au]

Hi,

A few days ago, I needed to copy some files from my MacOS9 partition to my Linux Partition.
I couldn't remember which device name it was, so I mounted each one in turn (in retrospect I should have just typed 'fdisk -l /dev/hda') using 'hpmount /dev/hda<n>
After pressing enter, I was asked if I wanted to mount in read/write mode (I never saw this message any other time I used hpmount), figured it wouldn't hurt, and chose yes.
Then I did hpls, if it was the wrong partition, hpumount and repeated the process.
I eventually found the one I was after, and copied the file using hpcopy, then hpumount to close off.

Later, when downloading a file, the d/l had completed, but the file seemed a little small, so I did df -k to check for enough space, and I noticed that both my partitions were
on 100%.  Seemed a bit strange, since the day before I had about 400mb free on each.  So I deleted the kerenel-source I had d/l'd, then did df-k again, but there was no
difference.  Still no bytes available.

Had I realised there was a serious issue, I wouldn't have rebooted until I had backed up my home directory.

Holding down <alt> on startup, I was presented with the OSX and OS9 drives, but no Linux.
I booted from the debian install CD, and executed a shell, to try and mount the partition and only came up with errors.
Now, the drive partition scheme is as follows:

/dev/hda1    partition map
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda4
/dev/hda5
/dev/hda6
/dev/hda7
/dev/hda8
/dev/hda9    Bootstrap
/dev/hda10    /
/dev/hda11    Swap
/dev/hda12    /Home
/dev/hda13    MacOS9

My intial thought was that the whole partition map was screwed, but I can boot off /dev/hda13 into OS9, so I'm assuming the issue is with the boot partition itself.
I tried to mount using 'mount /dev/had10 /mnt' but got a two line error message stating 'partition type incorrect or invalid session', then on the next line 'failed to mount
partition'.
I then tried 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hda10 /mnt'.  The first line was gone, but it still 'failed to mount partition'.

Can anybody think of a way to mount/retrieve files from this partition??
I'm used to PC based drives, and would simply re-install, I'm not sure if the HPUTILS package has permanently screwed the partitions.
Can anything be done in OpenFirmware to rectify the problem??


Any ideas would be much appreciated,

Stephen York



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