Friends,

Thanks to everyone for all your help re my posting 'Help! I cannot boot my
system'. I am still working on the problem - getting closer to solution
(with your help), but still not quite there.

The problem:

I used bcwipe to delete a directory in /, but it seems to have destroyed a
lot else. I have loaded a live cd of Knoppix and mounted what was left.

1) The partition structure is intact. (its suse 9.0 by the way)

2) The etc directory in / has gone and files in the other directories in /
are depleted. However these are all system files. I had data files in a
directory in / and these are all intact.

3) I have the home directory in an encrypted partition, which I am now
trying to access - I am hoping that the data is still there.

My question is how do I mount the encrypted partition after boot.

I have experimented on my other system which is working ok, but I cannot get
the encrypted partition there to mount after boot - it mounts ok
automatically, but of course I will not be able to auto mount on the
compromised system.

My cryptotab says (on the working system);

/dev/loop0 /dev/hda9 /home resiserfs twofish noatime

so I thought -

mount -t reiserfs /dev/loop0 /home

would mount the partition, but I get the error -

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, or to many
mounted file systems

Where am I going wrong here. Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,

Ken
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